Cisco and BMC Software Deliver Major Breakthrough in Management for Unified Computing System
March 16 2009 - 10:45AM
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Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) and BMC Software (NYSE: BMC) --
- Substantial, rapid reductions in IT OpEx and CapEx
- Standardized, automated delivery of mission-critical business
services
- Greater business agility from IT environments
Cisco and BMC Software today announced their collaboration to
deliver a major management breakthrough for the new Cisco Unified
Computing System.
Combined with BMC's Business Service Management, Cisco's Unified
Computing System represents a quantum leap forward in enhancing
customers' ability to provision and reconfigure the entire stack of
mission-critical business services, along with the supporting
applications and the underlying virtual and physical resources. In
many data centers, these manual tasks take weeks or even months to
accomplish. The combined Cisco and BMC Software solution is
designed to automate these actions through a single management
console, potentially allowing these tasks to be completed in just
minutes.
The Cisco Unified Computing System Manager offers a deep
integration with BMC BladeLogic Service Automation and BMC Atrium
Configuration Management Database (CMDB). This combined solution
helps enable customers to define fully configured, customized
service profiles with fully provisioned application environments,
and then deploy them rapidly to meet their business or computing
requirements. BMC Atrium CMDB gives real-time insight to the
business impact of the Cisco Unified Computing System while BMC's
larger Business Service Management portfolio offers performance
management, service management, and IT process automation for the
Unified Computing System or the full enterprise IT
infrastructure.
Customers can purchase the Unified Computing System pre-packaged
with BMC's powerful BladeLogic service automation suite, including
BMC Atrium technology, when the Unified Computing System becomes
generally available to customers starting in the second calendar
quarter of 2009. Cisco and BMC will also collaborate to deliver
joint sales engagements, technical support, professional services
and technology development.
Prem Jain, senior vice president of Cisco's Server and Access
Virtualization Business Unit, said: "Proper management of dynamic,
virtual IT environments is critical for realizing their full
business impact. The Unified Computing System represents a complete
paradigm shift in terms of what it costs to acquire, manage and
administer IT environments of the future. Working closely with
Cisco, BMC Software has delivered the very important pieces of
software that make the Unified Computing System revolution
real."
"Customers clearly have been waiting a long time for this
promised revolution," said Jim Grant, BMC's senior vice president
for strategy and corporate development. "For years, we've all heard
a lot of talk about concepts like 'adaptive enterprise.' We've seen
increasingly monolithic infrastructure models cobbled together from
existing piece parts and limited by a business mandate to protect
old platform investments. As a result, customers and channel
partners often have felt trapped in highly prescriptive IT
frameworks that cannot successfully manage and operate the
datacenter of the future. Working together, BMC and Cisco have
eliminated these limitations presented by the inflexible
architectures of the past. The Cisco Unified Computing System
changes everything."
Additional Resources:
- Video: Bob Beauchamp Remarks on Unified Computing
- Press release: Cisco Unified Computing System
- Press release: Cisco Open Partner Ecosystem
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