Opalis Software announced that SearchDataCenter.com has named the Opalis Integration Server a Silver Award winner for its 2007 “Products of the Year” award in the category of data center automation tools. Opalis Integration Server provides orchestration, integration, and automation of IT processes across the enterprise, enabling companies to improve IT efficiency and increase business agility.

Judging for the awards was conducted by the editors of TechTarget’s SearchDataCenter.com, in conjunction with a team of users, industry experts, industry analysts, and consultants, on six criteria: innovation, performance, ease-of-integration into existing environments, ease-of-use and manageability, functionality, and value. Judges selected among data center products introduced, upgraded, and shipped between October 31, 2006 and November 1, 2007.

“We are honored to be recognized once again by industry experts for providing solutions that deliver value to our enterprise customers,” said Louise Johns, director of marketing for Opalis. “With more success in automating IT processes than any other independent vendor, we know automation is crucial for organizations that want to improve IT efficiency and reduce management costs. Acknowledgement as one of 2007’s best data center automation tools by SearchDataCenter.com is further proof of Opalis’ leadership and commitment to providing innovative and proven solutions for IT process automation to enterprise customers worldwide.”

Opalis delivers unique, out-of-the-box solutions that enable IT process automation inside and outside the data center for key IT initiatives and strategies, as well as across heterogeneous IT ecosystems. The Opalis solution automates workflow processes around critical IT initiatives, such as disaster recovery, security, provisioning, virtualization, consolidation, and ITIL. Through seamless integration with leading systems management tools from vendors including BladeLogic, BMC Software, CA, EMC, HP Software, IBM, Microsoft, and VMware, Opalis provides the integration bridge that allows IT management to orchestrate intelligent automation throughout the data center.

With Opalis, enterprises can quickly realize the benefits of IT process automation, driving down management costs and increasing productivity, while enforcing compliant best practices aimed at improving performance and availability of critical business applications.