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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION
FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY /
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Systems/Enterprise:
SMARTS, BladeLogic ESTABLISH
GLOBAL ALLIANCE
SMARTS, a leading provider of automated real-time business assurance
solutions, and BladeLogic, a provider of data center automation software,
announced a global alliance that brings self-healing systems management
capabilities to data centers and allows IT organizations to accelerate the
drive toward a more efficient utility computing model. The agreement enables
customers to easily leverage both SMARTS InCharge and BladeLogic Operations
Manager to automatically provision, change, monitor, diagnose and repair
application infrastructure, giving IT managers unparalleled visibility and
control to improve service responsiveness and reduce operational costs.
"With the growing trend toward real-time infrastructure, companies are
demanding ways to automate the time-consuming process of managing application
infrastructure -- from provisioning servers and applications, to proactively
finding and analyzing problems, to auto-correction and compliance assurance,"
said Ronni Colville, research director at Gartner. "Having these capabilities
integrated can improve mission critical application availability by shortening
time-to-resolve outages or performance degradation, thus quickly and cost-
effectively responding to increasing business demands."
Through the agreement, which includes product integration and sales
collaboration, customers can quickly implement industry-leading capabilities
for efficiently managing complex and distributed application infrastructure.
SMARTS' InCharge common information model and intelligent event correlation
engine reveals interactions between the network elements, systems,
applications, services, and customers they support. InCharge proactively
recognizes underlying service-affecting problems and immediately calculates
their impact on the business, allowing problem resolution to be prioritized
based on service impact.
In turn, BladeLogic Operations Manager automates corrective action across
thousands of servers and their corresponding applications according to service
level agreements or configuration policies for compliance or security. For
example, data centers can easily provision new servers and application
releases, install patches or disable insecure services or ports. Together, by
integrating SMARTS' fault analysis and BladeLogic's change automation
capabilities, the products give customers the ability to automate the
lifecycle of managing a dynamic application environment in a proactive and
self-healing manner, enabling superior levels of security, responsiveness and
cost effectiveness.
"SMARTS and BladeLogic share a very similar goal -- to strip out the
complexity and high cost of managing today's application infrastructure
through intelligence-driven data center automation," said SMARTS Roger Pilc,
chief operating officer. "By combining the strengths of two market leaders
with complementary solutions, our customers can leverage the most cutting-edge
and comprehensive solution in the market today to assure high application
uptime and rapid mean-time-to-repair."
"Most systems management automation has been limited to only monitoring
infrastructure to identify problems leaving diagnosis and resolution to time-
consuming, costly and error-prone manual processes," said Dev Ittycheria,
president and CEO of BladeLogic. "But with increasing infrastructure
complexity, rising service level expectations and escalating pressure to cut
costs, IT organizations now require an integrated and highly automated
approach to problem detection, business impact analysis, and resolution
according to business policies. The alliance between BladeLogic and SMARTS
provides customers with a proven and compelling solution to address this
fundamental management problem."
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