Putnam Investments Selects BladeLogic

BladeLogic, Inc. (www.bladelogic.com), a provider of data center automation software, today announced that Putnam Investments, one of the world's leading money management firms, has selected BladeLogic Operations Manager™ as its server management platform.

Through its implementation of Operations Manager, Putnam Investments will be able to automate the entire server management lifecycle, including server and software provisioning, application change management, remote administration, and ongoing patch and compliance management.

"BladeLogic Operations Manager has been specifically designed to address the full lifecycle of server management so organizations need only one solution for provisioning, change, administration and compliance," said Dev Ittycheria, President and CEO, BladeLogic.

BladeLogic is a provider of data center automation software with a large installed base of Global 2000 and other leading customers, including Chicago Mercantile Exchange, General Electric, HSBC, priceline.com, Sprint, Time Warner, VeriSign and Walmart.com.