BMC, VMware expand business and technology partnership
ConvergenceAsia staff
17/09/2008

BMC Software and VMware have signed a letter of intent for a significant expansion of their long-standing partnership, including a new reseller agreement and joint development of new integrated management solutions.

The intended agreement gives BMC, a global provider of enterprise management solutions, special integration and reseller access to VMware vCenter Lifecycle Manager solutions. VMware is the global provider of virtualisation solutions from the desktop to the data centre.

The VMware and BMC integrated automation solution will be based on VMware vCenter Lifecycle Manager and BMC’s Remedy IT Service Management (ITSM) and BMC Atrium Orchestrator products. BMC will resell the integrated solutions, including VMware vCenter Lifecycle Manager.

Customers will have a VMware-optimised automation solution that includes a single service request interface to automate change and configuration management across their heterogeneous virtualised and non-virtualised data centre.

Said Bob Beauchamp, BMC Software’s president and chief executive officer, “Working together, BMC and VMware continue to drive down the cost of managing both physical and virtual servers, as well as the lifecycle of virtual machines. “

BMC and VMware have also jointly validated running ITSM on VMware Infrastructure 3 and are developing reference architecture and best practices to guide customers in managing change across the virtual and physical data centre. These first deliverables of the expanded VMware and BMC partnership will be released later this month.

Paul Maritz, president and chief executive officer, VMware said that “by expanding our partnership to build and have BMC resell integrated automation solutions, our customers will be able to benefit from complete solutions for efficient management, control and compliance of their virtual data centres“.

BMC will also offer products as part of the new VMware Ready Program for management solutions. This VMware Ready Program leverages the unique capabilities of the VMware vCenter product line to enable a rich ecosystem of partners to qualify and promote solutions that help customers integrate and simplify comprehensive management for Virtual Datacenter Operating System (VDC-OS) from VMware.

BMC was also selected to be part of VMware’s Alliance Affiliate Program to engage joint channel partners in delivering these integrated solutions.

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