BMC Software launches comprehensive virtualisation management solutions
ConvergenceAsia staff
01/09/2008

BMC Software, a global provider of enterprise management solutions, has announced the industry’s most comprehensive virtualisation management approach, including nine new, integrated solutions designed to eliminate the rising risk and operational expenses associated with inadequate management of virtualised IT environments.

The new solutions are grounded in a BMC-invented, highly automated set of Closed-Loop Change and Configuration Management (CLCCM) process workflows that reduce the latency, cost and risk associated with change management by as much as 75 per cent.

Kia Behnia, chief technology officer for BMC’s Enterprise Service Management business unit said BMC’s comprehensive solutions proactively manage the entire physical and virtual infrastructure (VI) with solutions that prevent business service outages, improving customer satisfaction while driving down costs.

Extending its Service Assurance and Service Automation portfolios – key components of the BMC Business Service Management (BSM) platform - to deliver virtualisation-specific capabilities, BMC’s nine new offerings have been optimised to support goals for performance, compliance and enterprise visibility.

All of these new offerings are architected to support both virtual and physical infrastructures, further reducing cost and complexity by allowing IT operations organisations to use a single set of management solutions across their entire IT infrastructure.

As part of this new virtualisation management offering, BMC has completed full solution integration with long-time partners Microsoft, Sun and VMware.

As organisations explore the many advantages virtualisation offers, they also must understand that implementing these technologies cannot come at the price of sacrificing control of their environment, said Dai Vu, Microsoft’s director of virtualisation solutions. “BMC significantly extends the value of virtualisation technologies like Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V by providing automation, integration and control across the heterogeneous enterprise.”

Vijay Sarathy, Sun Microsystems’ senior director of marketing for xVM, said, "Building on our strategic partnership, BMC and Sun have been integrating Sun’s open, flexible and internet-scale xVM virtualisation portfolio with BMC’s industry-leading Business Service Management solutions."

“The partnership between BMC and Sun provides customers with superior application environments that help customers to maximise the benefits of virtualisation while maintaining control over their entire IT infrastructure,'“ he added.

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