 "BMC Software Enhances Cloud Lifecycle Management Solution")
BMC Software has announced additional capabilities integrated into its BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management solution that proactively ensures the service quality of cloud services and avoids many of the risks of cloud computing such as outages, performance and capacity issues, while simplifying cloud administration.
The costly aftershock associated with recent cloud failures has shifted the focus of many companies toward cloud management solutions that safeguard against potential incidents and outages. Industry analysts have been clear about the requirements necessary for successful cloud operations.
“The goal of cost optimisation and increased business agility through the cloud will only be realised with processes and tools that are designed specifically to address the new operational issues that cloud-based services present,” said Cameron Haight, Research Vice President, Gartner, Inc. “IT organisations seeking to remain relevant in a new world of choices will seek to optimise their client’s satisfaction by making their transition to the cloud as transparent as possible while they (IT operations) do the heavy lifting.”
BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management is integrated with the BMC Capacity Optimization solution and the BMC ProactiveNet Performance Management product. These capabilities combined with BMC End User Experience Management provide proactive performance and capacity management from the end user experience to the underlying infrastructure across flexible, highly dynamic public, private, and hybrid clouds.
“The calamitous impacts of recent public cloud failures proves definitively that building a cloud is only the first step in a cloud journey,” said Kia Behnia, BMC’s chief technology officer. “Managing the ongoing operations of a ‘hybrid’ cloud including proactive service planning, monitoring and governance to avoid potential failures represents the critical other half of the story and BMC is leading the market in a holistic approach to successful private and hybrid cloud projects.”
Along with these new cloud operations capabilities, BMC is also releasing a Cloud Rapid Deployment service delivered by BMC Global Services. This service allows users to quickly implement the BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management solution in as little as 45 days. This implementation lays the foundation for a well-managed private or public cloud, and can be coupled with broader BMC Global Services offerings for cloud planning and operations.