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Time Warner Cable Selects BladeLogic For Data Center Management

BladeLogic Inc, a provider of data center automation software, announced that Time Warner Cable will deploy BladeLogic Operations Manager, a suite of enterprise-class data center automation solutions, to manage its server and application infrastructure.

By deploying BladeLogic Operations Manager, Time Warner Cable will be able to automate a wide range of data center management processes, including server provisioning, remote administration, software distribution, security and patch management, application changes and compliance management.

"BladeLogic Operations Manager provides Time Warner Cable with comprehensive data center automation that will help streamline our data center operations," said John Drudick, vice president of information technology for Time Warner Cable. "We hope to significantly increase productivity, decrease our operations costs and provide greater visibility into our server and application infrastructure."

The shift to distributed computing architectures and the dynamic nature of today's businesses have resulted in rapid growth in servers, applications and users. BladeLogic enables companies such as Time Warner Cable to efficiently and securely automate data center tasks including server and application provisioning, patch management, change management, compliance management and remote administration. This approach reduces the complexity and costs of managing the data center, improves security and ensures more responsiveness to business demands. BladeLogic addresses today's data center management challenges while laying the foundation for utility computing.

"By selecting BladeLogic, forward-thinking companies such as Time Warner Cable are using cutting-edge automation technology to turn operational inefficiencies into dramatic productivity gains and reduced data center costs," said Dev Ittycheria, president and CEO of BladeLogic. "BladeLogic is very pleased to be working with Time Warner Cable and looks forward to a long and rewarding relationship."