As Hewlett-Packard, IBM, and Sun Microsystems continue to flesh out their utility-computing strategies through alliances and acquisitions, niche software providers are delivering the data-center-management applications needed to get started. BladeLogic Inc. this week launches Operations Manager version 5, designed to cut data-center operating costs and improve IT responsiveness through new automated server- and application-provisioning capabilities. Operations Manager works with servers running Linux, Unix, or Windows operating systems and is priced, to start, at $1,200 per server.
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