Software automates data center change management.
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Delivering set of ITIL-based extensions for virtualization management and optimization, Data Center Optimization solution integrates and automates entire planning-to-implementation lifecycle for data center consolidation and virtualization projects. It ensures each configuration change is executed successfully and optimizes IT infrastructure resources to support business growth. Included BMC Discovery discovers VMware virtual machines and their configurations.
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BMC Software Racks Up Another Industry First: Full Automation of Data Center Change Management
Platform-Neutral Solutions Allow Customers to Identify, Analyze and Slash IT Infrastructure Costs and Complexity
HOUSTON, July 17 -- Adding to its expanding roster of new, industry-leading Business Service Management solutions, BMC Software (NYSE:BMC) today delivered the industry's first data center optimization solution that integrates and automates the entire planning-to-implementation lifecycle for data center consolidation and virtualization projects, ensuring that each configuration change is executed successfully. Customers will dramatically improve IT efficiency, reduce risk, and optimize their IT infrastructure resources to support business growth.
Data centers are considered the most expensive real estate in any organization due to the specialized environment required to house servers -- things such as climate control, raised floors and safety mechanisms all contribute to the high price tag. While initial server purchase prices can be as low as $2,000, ongoing operational, maintenance, management, and associated expenses are typically much larger. Costs multiply with each server whether idle or fully utilized. BMC's Data Center Optimization solutions slow the physical growth of the data center, also known as server sprawl, by reducing the number of servers used, thus maximizing use of space and minimizing the cost of supporting and housing servers.
Successful data center optimization requires consolidation of data center elements and virtualization capabilities. This enables organizations worldwide to leverage existing hardware, software, and data managed by IT organizations.
BMC customer, RBC Financial Group, uses BMC's Performance Assurance for Servers suite to leverage and support the Capacity Management and Provisioning services for their Unix systems, enabling effective management of their Unix resources as they continuously optimize resource utilization. BMC Performance Assurance is a core part of the process that drives their server optimization projects.
BMC's Data Center Optimization solutions enable the IT Resource Capacity Planners at RBC Financial Group to identify, report, and manage resource demands and execute capacity resource provisioning processes across the Unix resource pools and throughout their business applications lifecycle. The BMC solution assists with the discovery of workload characteristics and behaviors, determination of what resources those workloads require for implementation and management of the appropriate resources while controlling the change impact and assuring business service levels are maintained.
The IT Resource Capacity Planners at RBC Financial Group actively participated in the field tests for BMC's new Exception Detection solution which aligned well with their goals to improve their analysis processes and service quality with proactive analysis of exceptions at a business service component level.
BMC is the only vendor that delivers complete ITIL-integrated workflows for changes associated with server resource provisioning, allowing data centers to link their availability and capacity management processes with change management for more controlled, effective, and efficient use of data center resources. In addition, BMC's Data Center Optimization solutions deliver a comprehensive set of ITIL-based extensions for virtualization management and optimization. BMC Discovery now adds discovery of VMware virtual machines and their configurations and populates these items in the industry-leading BMC Atrium CMDB. BMC Performance Assurance solutions have been extended to provide performance analysis and predictive modeling for consolidating to VMware and other leading platforms.
Fred Johannessen, BMC's vice president and program executive for Data Center Solutions, said, "Many platform vendors are hyping virtualization, including server resource provisioning, but most businesses are reluctant to embrace it largely due to the high risk of managing and controlling such complexities. BMC's pragmatic approach is process oriented, automated, and completely platform-agnostic. As a result, customers feel much more comfortable working with us to address the challenges associated with consolidation, virtualization and automated resource provisioning."
The range of BMC products making up the Data Center Optimization solution include BMC Virtualizer 2.5, BMC Performance Assurance 7.3 (both available now), as well as new workflow integrations with existing BMC solutions such as BMC Atrium CMDB, BMC Discovery, BMC Change and Configuration Management, and BMC Performance Manager 2.1.
About BMC Software
BMC Software is a leading global provider of enterprise management solutions that empower companies to manage their IT infrastructure from a business perspective. Delivering Business Service Management, BMC solutions span enterprise systems, applications, databases and service management. Founded in 1980, BMC posted fiscal 2006 revenues of more than $1.49 billion. For more information, visit www.bmc.com/ .
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