STAMFORD, Conn., Nov. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Aperture Technologies Inc., the leading global provider of software for managing the physical infrastructure of data centers, announced today that it has partnered with BladeLogic , a leading provider of next-generation data center automation software, to become part of the BladeLogic Data Center Alliance program.

The partnership, effective immediately, will provide IT organizations with a unified platform to integrate physical and logical infrastructure for managing change and compliance in the data center. The BladeLogic Data Center Alliance program provides BladeLogic partners an easy, yet powerful way to integrate their solutions with the BladeLogic data center automation software suite.

Aperture VISTA enables IT executives to manage today's complex data center environments through advanced planning and management capabilities. Aperture VISTA provides data center managers with a visual representation of the data center; including the space available, power consumption and cooling requirements. In large data centers, Aperture VISTA is an invaluable tool that ensures optimal uptime and effective capacity management. BladeLogic's suite of data center automation software solutions enables IT organizations to manage, control and enforce configuration changes to servers and applications in order to realize maximum value from the data center.

The combination of the BladeLogic and Aperture solutions enables critical data center assets, both logical and physical, to be viewed across IT organizations and departments. This partnership provides data centers with a common view of the operational, physical and logical state of servers and applications to improve change success rates and demonstrate better and continuous compliance. Through procedures such as asset management, configuration management and change orchestration, the combined offering provides a comprehensive view of the data center real estate and applications.

Steve Yellen, vice president of Product and Market Strategy for Aperture Technologies, said: "We are proud to join the BladeLogic Data Center Alliance program. Our products complement each other perfectly to provide data center managers with details of assets and configurations, resulting in a full view of the physical and logical configuration attributes of the data center. Providing the most comprehensive data to our customers while delivering cost saving benefits to the data center is essential - this partnership delivers both."

Vick Viren Vaishnavi, vice president of Marketing, BladeLogic said: "This integration is a natural evolution towards bringing the physical and logical aspects of data center management on a common platform. Power and cooling costs continue to escalate, data center space is becoming scarcer, and there is ever growing pressure to push more changes to the data center. As a result, IT managers need solutions which can help them plan and manage physical and logical configurations in concert. The combination of these two solutions allows IT managers to be more agile to meet business demands, mitigate the

risks of configuration changes, and reduce all aspects of operational costs, including staffing, space and power."

About Aperture

Aperture is the leading global provider of software for managing the physical infrastructure of data centers. Aperture's solutions reduce operational risk and improve efficiency through the planning and management of data center resources and real-time monitoring of the environment. Aperture delivers the best practice processes that enable organizations to take control of an increasingly complex physical infrastructure including equipment, space, power, cooling, network and storage.

With over 20 years of experience, Aperture provides organizations with the information required to optimize their data center operations, delivering better services at the lowest cost. Aperture's customers include the world's largest companies, half of which are Fortune 1000 and Global 500 organizations.

For more information, please go to: http://www.aperture.com/ About BladeLogic

BladeLogic is a leading provider of data center automation software with a large installed base of Fortune Global 500 customers, including 21 of the top 100 global companies, 3 of the top 10 aerospace and defense companies, 7 of the top 25 commercial and savings banks, 3 of the top 5 securities companies, 2 of the top 3 entertainment companies, 2 of the top 3 general merchandisers, 7 of the top 12 pharmaceutical companies and 7 of the top 10 telecommunications companies. BladeLogic's data center automation software solutions enable enterprises, service providers and government organizations to easily browse, provision, configure, patch, audit and remediate physical and virtual servers and applications, allowing customers to achieve reduced data center operating costs, improved service quality and enhanced security and compliance. BladeLogic is headquartered in Lexington, Massachusetts, USA. For more information, please visit http://www.bladelogic.com/.

Aperture is a trademark of Aperture Technologies, Inc. All other trademarks and company names mentioned are the property of their respective owners. Copyright (C) 2007 Aperture Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved.

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