The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Selects Opsware Automation to Reduce Costs and Support IT Management; Opsware Ena
02 June 2005 - 11:01PM
Business Wire
Opsware Inc. (Nasdaq:OPSW), the leading provider of IT automation
and utility computing software, today announced that The Guardian
Life Insurance Company of America (Guardian), the fourth largest
mutual life insurance company in the United States, is using
Opsware automation to more effectively manage application rollouts
and upgrades, new deployments, and to generate detailed reports for
financial planning and budgeting. Guardian uses Opsware products on
more than 8,000 assets across 60 locations. "Opsware automation
software provides us with greater visibility and control over our
assets, enabling compliance with corporate and regulatory policies,
and supporting enterprise standardization," said Dennis Callahan,
EVP and Chief Information Officer, Guardian. Opsware's technology
is also instrumental in Guardian's security and risk management
initiatives, including contingency planning and disaster recovery,
patch and virus management, and inventory reporting across
geographically distributed locations. Using Opsware automation,
Guardian benefits from increased operational efficiencies, tighter
security and a deeper level of control over their environment.
"Automation is the cornerstone of a strong security and compliance
strategy," said Tim Howes, CTO and EVP of Development, Opsware Inc.
"Guardian is a leader in the insurance industry, and Opsware
automation is critical to helping them gain greater control of
their environment and maximize their technology investments." About
Opsware Inc. (Nasdaq:OPSW) Opsware Inc. is the world's leading IT
automation and utility computing software company. The growth of
the Internet is driving a shift from client/server computing to Web
architecture. With this shift comes an overwhelming proliferation
of servers and applications, creating massive complexity that makes
an automated IT model a necessity. The Opsware System automates the
complete IT lifecycle and delivers utility computing by enabling IT
to automatically provision, patch, configure, secure, change,
scale, audit, recover, consolidate, migrate, and reallocate servers
and applications. Over 250 of the world's largest companies,
outsourcers and government agencies use Opsware to deliver this
new, automated model of IT. For more information on Opsware Inc.,
please visit our Web site at www.opsware.com. About Guardian
Founded in 1860, The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America,
New York, NY (Guardian) is the fourth largest mutual life insurance
company in the United States. As of December 31, 2004, Guardian and
its subsidiaries had $39.5 billion in assets. With more than 5,000
employees and 2,900 financial representatives, as well as over 80
agencies nationwide, Guardian and its subsidiaries protect
individuals, businesses and their employees with life, disability,
health and dental insurance products, and offer 401(k), financial
products and trust services. More information about Guardian can be
obtained at: www.GuardianLife.com. Opsware is a service mark and
trademark of Opsware Inc. All other product names, service marks,
and trademarks mentioned herein are trademarks of their respective
owners. This press release contains forward-looking statements
regarding the benefits and capabilities of our software products.
These statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could
cause actual results to differ materially from these statements,
including the risk that the assumptions underlying our current
business strategy may change, that our experience operating as a
software company is limited, and that the products may not perform
as described. More information about these and other factors that
could affect our business and financial results is included in our
Form 10-K filed with the SEC on April 15, 2005 under the headings
"Risk Factors" and "Management's Discussion and Analysis of
Financial Condition and Results of Operations" and the Forms 10-Q
and 8-K that we file during the fiscal year.
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