BMC Software Delivers Control of Virtualized Environments With Service Oriented Resource Management
October 18 2005 - 11:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
BMC Virtualizer Solution Introduced to Lower IT Infrastructure
Costs and Reduce Risks, While Controlling and Improving Business
Service Availability, Agility and Performance HOUSTON, Oct. 18
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- BMC Software, Inc. (NYSE:BMC), a leading
provider of enterprise management solutions, today announced its
Service Oriented Resource Management (SORM) solutions, including
the new BMC(R) Virtualizer Suite and the latest version of BMC
Performance Assurance for Virtual Servers. The SORM solutions also
include both current and planned integration with other BMC
products enabling holistic management of IT processes, from the
mainframe, through distributed systems, and into a virtualized
environment. BMC Software's SORM solutions provide customers with a
predictive and adaptable computing environment that automatically
provisions new server and software resources, based on real-time
business requirements. With SORM, businesses gain control over the
latest virtualization technologies and industry standard servers to
reduce infrastructure costs, increase service availability, and
respond in real-time to changing business requirements.
Introductions today include: * BMC Virtualizer Suite, a new
software family that automatically orchestrates the provisioning of
resources on-demand. It includes BMC Virtualizer for High
Availability and BMC Virtualizer for Capacity on Demand; *
Enhancements to BMC Performance Assurance for Virtual Servers,
making it the first comprehensive predictive modeling technology
for virtualized server environments; * BMC Virtualizer integration
with existing BMC Performance Manager and BMC Performance Assurance
solutions; and * BMC Virtualizer integration with BMC Configuration
Management and Discovery products to ensure resources are
synchronized with appropriate software updates and with change
management processes. "St. George Bank saw significant cost savings
using BMC's Performance Assurance solutions to predictively model
performance, capacity and consolidation opportunities presented
during business mergers," said Michelle Ruel, senior capacity
planner, St.George Bank, Australia. "We were naturally excited to
hear BMC would be extending predictive capabilities to Virtual
Servers, and asked to participate in development and testing. Based
on our experience there, we look forward to leveraging equivalent
value as we adopt these technologies." "Making sure our freight
arrives at its destination on time is one of our most critical
business services," said Tim Hill, distributed systems capacity
planner at CNF, a $3.7 billion company that is a leading provider
of global supply chain solutions for a wide range of manufacturing,
industrial, retail, and government customers. "We rely on the
performance analytics and the predictive capabilities of BMC
Performance Assurance to increase our utilization rates, save
money, and eliminate potential performance and capacity risks for
our critical business services. As we are now adopting VMware to
virtualize portions of our server infrastructure, we are excited
that BMC will be able to provide these same benefits with BMC
Performance Assurance for Virtual Servers." SORM Solutions Advance
Business Service Management Strategy BMC Software's Business
Service Management (BSM) strategy enables companies to move beyond
traditional IT management to better optimize and manage their
critical services from a business perspective. By applying business
relevance in automating resource management, companies can ensure
the most critical business systems are addressed first. The
company's SORM solutions also provide the management capabilities
needed to successfully adopt today's industry standard hardware and
virtualization technologies in a utility computing model. BMC's
SORM solutions don't lock customers into a specific implementation
framework, so customers can start with any product, such as BMC
Virtualizer, based on their immediate needs and then incorporate
other SORM offerings as they go. BMC Virtualizer Suite allows
companies to consolidate and cost-optimize their datacenters and
significantly improve application service availability. BMC
Virtualizer solutions provide policy-based resource orchestration
and provisioning capabilities across enterprise clusters and
standalone application servers. Unlike other failover automation
products that require one dedicated backup server per production
server or cluster, BMC Virtualizer automatically provisions
appropriate server resources -- whether physical or virtual -- for
applications based on business need and enables the sharing of the
server resources across multiple applications. The shared pools of
server resources can be used for both failover and/or providing
capacity on-demand. The first products in this family, BMC
Virtualizer for High Availability and BMC Virtualizer for Capacity
on Demand, are available immediately. BMC Virtualizer for High
Availability eliminates 1:1 server failover requirements by
managing a smaller pool of shared failover servers. This automates
application server failover and recovery in less than five minutes.
BMC Virtualizer for Capacity on Demand includes the functionality
of the High Availability product and also allows organizations with
server clusters, such as Oracle 10g, Apache, and Microsoft IIS, to
improve service availability and performance through datacenter
virtualization and the automated provisioning of applications,
servers, networks, and storage. "SORM enables customers to leverage
the latest virtualization and industry standard hardware
architectures to realize the quickest possible business agility, at
the lowest possible price, while mitigating the risks associated
with adopting these technologies," said Mary Smars, vice president
and general manager, Distributed Systems Management, BMC Software.
"The combination of BMC Performance Assurance, BMC Performance
Manager and BMC Service Management solutions allows customers to
dynamically provision from a business perspective. Our goal is to
reduce business risk and help our customers achieve Business
Service Management." BMC Software is also working with several
partners including Microsoft to bring its SORM strategy to market.
"Microsoft and BMC share a common goal to help customers achieve
the promise of self-managing dynamic systems, and BMC's Service
Oriented Resource Management solutions, along with Microsoft
Virtual Server 2005, help customers begin to achieve that promise,"
said Zane Adam, director of marketing, Windows Server Division,
Microsoft Corp. BMC Software's Performance Assurance(R) solutions
provide comprehensive performance analysis and prediction
capabilities required to optimize resource acquisition and
deployment decisions. BMC Performance Assurance for Virtual Servers
includes new predictive capability that shows how key applications
will perform during and after transition from physical to
virtualized environments. Once the planning and implementation is
complete, the solution helps ensure the ongoing optimized
performance of Virtual Server environments such as VMware,
Microsoft and XEN. By using BMC Performance Assurance solutions and
BMC Virtualizer, provisioning policies can be created and used to
automatically deploy exactly the right capacity, just before it is
required. This automatic provisioning minimizes the need to
purchase and install new computing resources to handle peak loads;
it allows customers to pay only for the capacity needed. Through
BMC Software's exclusive methodology, customers also can test
resource requirements and deployment scenarios before
implementation. Coupled with BMC Performance Manager for Virtual
Servers, a solution that discovers all virtual machines and maps
those virtual machines to their associated VMware ESX/GSX servers
and or VMware Groups, a complete lifecycle performance monitoring,
management and optimization solution is realized. BMC Software's
Configuration Management and IT Discovery -- Key Industry
Differentiators for Managing Virtual Environments Using processes
orchestrated from BMC Virtualizer, BMC Software Configuration
Management (formerly Marimba Server Management from BMC Software)
and BMC Software IT Discovery solutions detect, provision and
manage specific server configurations. BMC Topology Discovery
discovers virtualized environments and records them in the BMC
Atrium CMDB (Configuration Management Database) while BMC Software
Configuration Management solutions provide automated, closed loop
configuration management of those environments and the servers on
which they reside. The BMC Atrium CMDB provides an open, common
data repository, shared service model, and unified user and
reporting interfaces to accelerate attainment of BSM. Virtualized
environments change frequently, necessitating the use of "virtual
environment aware" configuration management and discovery tools to
provide up-to-date configuration information to the CMDB and
ensuring that all service management activities are executed based
on the most recent configuration information. For more information
including additional customer success stories with BMC Virtualizer
and other BMC Service Oriented Resource Management solutions, see:
http://www.bmc.com/capacitymanagement . About BMC Software BMC
Software, Inc. is a leading provider of enterprise management
solutions that empower companies to manage their IT infrastructure
from a business perspective. Delivering Business Service
Management, BMC Software solutions span enterprise systems,
applications, databases and service management. Founded in 1980,
BMC Software has offices worldwide and fiscal 2005 revenues of more
than $1.46 billion. For more information about BMC Software, visit
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