BMC Software Enhances Cloud Management Portfolio

BMC Software has announced enhancements to its cloud management portfolio to enable enterprises, public agencies, and service providers to achieve the agility required for building and managing highly flexible cloud services, across public, private and hybrid cloud environments. BMC’s cloud management portfolio creates clouds that work for business. Now IT organisations can finally transform from being the sole providers of IT services to being a broker of internal and external services to more effectively balance business responsiveness, performance, and cost.

BMC’s cloud management portfolio specifically addresses the practical requirements of taking cloud computing from an interesting, pilot technology to a core, business-critical IT service. This includes managing the broad combination of hardware and virtualisation technologies that customers already own as well as providing choice for future technology requirements. BMC’s cloud management portfolio is part of BMC’s Dynamic Business Service Management (BSM) platform, which provides IT organisations with a unified management capability across physical, virtual, and hybrid environments, reducing their costs and providing an evolutionary path to cloud adoption.

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BMC’s second-generation Cloud Lifecycle Management (CLM) solution provides multi-tiered cloud services support for deploying business-ready cloud environments from request to retirement, thereby accelerating provisioning, optimising ongoing operations, and rapidly meeting the needs of the business. Serving as the intelligent engine within the cloud, BMC’s newly introduced, policy-based Service Governor included with CLM enables customers to leverage automation and policy to expertly place, configure, and manage cloud services. BMC offers this capability today, enabling dramatic increases in the efficiency of provisioning and managing production and pre-production clouds regardless of whether they are private, public, or hybrid in nature.

Within CLM, IT administrators also now have the ability to define and automate multi-tier cloud services through the creation of flexible Service Blueprints, thus giving end users the flexibility to configure their cloud services, while ensuring IT administrators maintain the tight controls necessary to run an enterprise-class cloud efficiently and effectively. As users select services, the Service Governor then automatically implements the services within the infrastructure. Built with a strong commitment to heterogeneity across all infrastructures, CLM supports a broad range of hardware, hypervisor, and public cloud alternatives, ensuring BMC customers have the freedom to make the right business decisions, today and into the future. With this release, the BMC CLM solution now also supports Citrix XenServer.

Further, Cisco and BMC continue to work with service providers to implement the Integrated Cloud Delivery Platform, which is a tight linkage between BMC CLM and Cisco Unified Service Delivery solution that helps cloud providers deploy end-to-end cloud services running on a cloud computing infrastructure that spans datacentre networks, computing systems, storage and applications.

“Over the last two years, we have worked closely with more than 400 organisations to create a comprehensive cloud management solution that enables the agility business users expect from IT,” said Kia Behnia, Chief Technology Officer, BMC. “BMC is the only solution provider capable of deploying and managing the broadest choice of cloud environments with the full context and rigor of comprehensive dynamic Business Service Management for ongoing operational support.”