BladeLogic has announced that The Carphone Warehouse, the largest independent retailer of mobile communications in Europe, has selected BladeLogic as its automation platform to manage the company's server and application infrastructure. The Carphone Warehouse is implementing BladeLogic to replace complex and manually-intensive server and application management processes. BladeLogic Operations Manager, a suite of award-winning data center automation solutions, will enable The Carphone Warehouse to automate a wide range of these processes including the discovery and detailed inventory of servers and applications, the provisioning of the OS and the entire software stack, the deployment of application updates, and the continuous compliance of server configurations to corporate policies.