Edmunds Inc. Selects BladeLogic's Data Center Automation Suite to Expedite Build-Out of New Data Center

LEXINGTON, Mass.--BladeLogic, Inc. , a provider of leading next-generation data center automation software, today announced that Edmunds Inc., America’s most influential and authoritative source of automotive information, has selected BladeLogic’s award-winning suite of data center automation software solutions to automate the provisioning and management of all servers in its new state-of-the-art data center.

Prior to selecting BladeLogic, Edmunds used an assortment of server management software tools that were not well integrated and required highly specialized skills and extensive scripting. Edmunds is currently undergoing a major data center relocation project that will be completed later this year. Due to the aggressive timeframe of the project, Edmunds’ IT organization launched a competitive evaluation of the leading data center automation solutions to help expedite the relocation process. After a rigorous evaluation of the available tools in the marketplace, Edmunds selected BladeLogic’s data center automation software as it provided the most comprehensive and scalable solution to rapidly provision and manage all of its servers as well as enable the automation of other key management processes including configuration management, compliance assurance and application release management.

“We had planned to implement an automated provisioning system in the near future. The data center relocation we were facing prompted us to seek out a solution that we were confident could be implemented and could deliver results within our compressed timeline,” said Philip Potloff, Executive Director of Infrastructure Operations, Edmunds.com. “After an exhaustive evaluation of a number of leading data center automation solutions, the proof-of-concept team felt that BladeLogic was the only major contender that could meet our deployment and provisioning schedule. As part of this build-out effort, we were also able to leverage BladeLogic to baseline our system and application installation process, thereby ensuring rapid and consistent deployments across our large production and pre-production environments.”

“Edmunds’ web sites have achieved impressive accolades from leading publications such as The Wall Street Journal and Forbes, and most importantly, consumers,” said Dev Ittycheria, president and CEO, BladeLogic, “The efficiency of Edmunds’ new data center will be critical in ensuring that all four of its web sites are fully operational and able to quickly respond to the changing needs of the business and its customers. By selecting BladeLogic, Edmunds has a comprehensive data center automation solution that will assure that its new data center is turned up quickly and that its server and application environments are managed consistently and efficiently.”