BladeLogic, Inc. provides data center automation software to enterprises, service providers, government agencies, and other organizations in North America, Europe, and Asia. The company’s products and services enable organizations to address the lifecycle of data center management using an integrated solution for provisioning, change, administration, and compliance across server and application environments. It primarily offers Operations Manager Suite to discover, manage, control, and enforce changes to physical and virtual servers in the data center. This suite includes Discovery Manager that allows data center staff to browse and collect configuration data about servers and applications in real-time, as well as historical inventory information; Compliance Manager that enables information technology (IT) departments achieve continuous compliance with operational, security, and regulatory policies; Configuration Manager, a module that allows IT departments to provide, patch, configure, update, and remediate servers and applications running on operating systems; and Virtualization Manager, a virtual server technology that provides a method of partitioning one physical server into multiple servers. BladeLogic, Inc. also offers Application Release Manager that automates the process to roll-out applications from development to production environments in the data center, and Orchestration Manager for the development of workflows to address certain management processes across various functional groups in the data center. In addition, it offers consulting, education, and customer support services. BladeLogic, Inc. markets and sells its products and services primarily through a direct sales force comprising professional sales people, as well as indirectly through multiple channels worldwide, which include technology resellers, distributors, and system integrators. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Lexington, Massachusetts.