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BladeLogic, Inc. (Nasdaq: BLOG), a leading provider of next-generation data center automation software, announced today that it will host a webinar on Thursday, March 6th, 2008 at 11:30 a.m. (ET) entitled, �Top 10 Management Principles that Lead to IT Operational Excellence.� In an environment where business is dependent on IT more than ever before, operational excellence is critical in order to achieve consistent results. It is not enough to know what IT must do to optimize business value. Rather, IT organizations must also be able to consistently deliver at a level of predictable performance that enables the business to achieve its strategic objectives. In this webinar, Kurt Milne, Managing Director, IT Process Institute, will review the top ten management principles IT organizations can implement to achieve IT operational excellence. The principles, inspired by Deming and the Toyota Way, are derived from market research benchmarks that analyzed the common practices of hundreds of top-performing IT organizations across multiple vertical markets. By providing general operating guidelines to complement existing best practices, these principles provide IT departments a coherent and practical approach to optimize IT operations and transform themselves into a high-performance organization. Included with each principle is a set of �proof in practice� benchmark statistics that rate high performers, medium performers and low performers in each area. Using these statistics, IT organizations can gauge their relative performance rankings and also learn about relevant principles that can help improve them. The principles detailed in this webinar include: Knowing what the organization needs from IT; Balancing controls with efficiency and agility; Creating well-defined roles and responsibilities for all IT personnel; Controlling access to computing environments; Building a process culture and managing process exceptions; Making data-driven decisions; Standardizing configurations and minimizing configuration drift; Following a common development-to-release lifecycle; Linking change requests to underlying systems and business services; And mandating that all production changes follow a rigorous process. Date: Thursday, March 6, 2008 Time: 11:30 a.m. (ET) To register for this webinar, please visit the BladeLogic website at: http://www.bladelogic.com. You may also register by e-mailing webinars@bladelogic.com. If you are registering via e-mail, please include your name, company name and e-mail address. About BladeLogic (NASDAQ:BLOG) BladeLogic is a provider of leading 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 www.bladelogic.com.