- BladeLogic
Infobox Defunct Company
company_name = BladeLogic Inc.
company_
successor =BMC Software
fate = Acquired byBMC Software
key_people = Dev Ittycheria:President &CEO , Steve Walske:Chairman , Vijay Manwani: SVP & Chief Technology Officer, John McMahon: SVP Worldwide Sales & Services, John Gavin: SVP & Chief Financial Officer
location =Lexington, MA
foundation = September,2001
defunct = 2008
num_employees = 180-200
industry =Software
products =Software |.BladeLogic, Inc. was a public software company based in
Lexington, MA that offered data center automation solutions designed for enterprises, service providers and government organizations. OnApril 23 , 2008, BladeLogic was acquired byBMC Software . BladeLogic was founded to address the escalating cost, complexity, and risk of managing the data center. The company’s software products are designed to enable IT organizations to provision, configure, patch, audit, and remediate physical and virtual servers and applications. The goal is to allow customers to achieve improved application uptime, reduced data center operating costs, and enhanced security and compliance.BladeLogic was started by a group of entrepreneurs who recognized that IT organizations required next-generation solutions to solve the growing management challenges of the data center. Remarkably, the company closed its first round of venture financing five days before September 11, 2001, and then raised three other rounds of venture financing over the next four years for a total of $29M. Over this time the company recruited senior technology executives who brought significant operational expertise to the management team and the board.
The name "BladeLogic" refers to the management of blade servers. When BladeLogic was founded, it seemed that data centers were moving toward blade servers, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blade_server#History] whereas today the trend seems to be more toward
virtualization . [ [http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1738282,00.asp Vendors Push Data Center Virtualization ] ]On July 25, 2007 BladeLogic began trading on the NASDAQ stock exchange under the symbol BLOG. On
April 23 , 2008, BMC Software announced that it has completed the acquisition ($800 million US) of BladeLogic.References
External links
* [http://www.bladelogic.com/ Official website]
The road to IPO:
* [http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1175685/000104746907002616/a2177017zs-1.htm Bladelogic Files S-1 (04/05/2007)]
* [http://www.theregister.com/2007/07/05/bladelogic_ipo Bladelogic seeks $45.4m IPO (07/05/07)]
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