BMC Virtualizer Wins Network Computing Well-Connected Award; Virtualization Solution Tops 'Virtual Manager' Category
May 24 2006 - 6:40PM
PR Newswire (US)
HOUSTON, May 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- BMC Software (NYSE:BMC)
today announced that the BMC Virtualizer solution has won a CMP
Media LLC's Network Computing 2006 Well-Connected Award. BMC
Virtualizer outperformed the competition in the category of Network
Infrastructure: Virtual Manager. The first policy-based automated
virtualization solution, BMC Virtualizer helps to deliver higher
levels of application availability, reduce costs and achieve data
center consolidation for enterprise IT environments with large and
growing multi-server clusters. This solution provides an
alternative to static server over-provisioning with dynamic,
policy-based provisioning to meet rapidly changing user demands.
"The concept of virtualization is attractive to organizations
seeking seamless IT resource synchronization based on business
need. However, a key challenge has been provisioning and managing
these complex environments to assure cost-effective, highly
available service," said Fred Johannessen, vice president and
program executive, Capacity Management and Provisioning, BMC
Software. "This award underscores the growing importance of data
center virtualization solutions and BMC's ongoing innovation and
execution advantage over the competition." The winners of the
Network Computing Well-Connected Awards were announced during a
ceremony on Monday, May 1, 2006 at the Wynn Las Vegas Hotel in Las
Vegas, Nev. All winners were highlighted in the April 27 issue of
Network Computing and on http://www.networkcomputing.com/ . "The
Well-Connected Awards are unique because they're the only industry
awards given by technologists based on real-world use and
integration. We view all products, technologies and services from
the same perspective as our readers -- our peers -- do," said John
Siefert, Publisher of Network Computing. "This is an important
distinction from any other award program -- the products selected
in the Well-Connected Awards have been tested in an actual business
environment and judged by our editors themselves. They are truly
innovative solutions that work -- and we have the metrics to prove
it." BMC Virtualizer is one element of BMC Software's Service
Oriented Resource Management (SORM) solution that allows
fluctuating load levels to be addressed with dynamic provisioning
and the virtualized sharing of resources across applications. As a
result, BMC Virtualizer can eliminate the 5-10x over- provisioning
of servers that IT managers typically allocate for business-
critical applications -- substantial savings when applied across
multiple-rack environments. 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
solution 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 also allows organizations with server clusters, such as
Oracle 10g, Apache, and Microsoft IIS, to maintain and improve
service performance during usage spikes by bringing additional
capacity online through the automated provisioning of applications
and servers. About Network Computing Network Computing is the
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Association and Folio Magazine's Ozzie Awards. 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 Software solutions span enterprise systems,
applications, databases and service management. Founded in 1980,
BMC Software posted fiscal 2005 revenues of more than $1.46
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