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BMC Software(R) First to Introduce Policy-Based Database Backup and Recovery; Enables Customers to Meet Performance Goals by Managing Against Set Policies HOUSTON, Aug. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- BMC Software, Inc. (NYSE:BMC) today announced SmartDBA(R) Recovery Management, the industry's first policy- based database backup and recovery solution. SmartDBA Recovery Management enables customers to effectively manage their infrastructure in order to better align their business and IT resources by providing business-relevant policy compliance reporting tailored to the needs of the end user. As a result, IT and business professionals are able to quickly and effortlessly ensure the availability and recoverability of the systems that are most critical to their business. "Providing business relevance to technology issues is essential in today's competitive environment and the driving force of our Business Service Management strategy," said Mary Smars, vice president and general manager, Distributed Systems Management, BMC Software. "With the addition of policy management we are redefining how to approach enterprise recovery by providing customers with a unique perspective of their database environment. We are making it possible for them to measure and track the recoverability of their key systems throughout their business as well as understand the impact these systems have on their SLAs." With the introduction of SmartDBA Recovery Management, BMC Software is significantly extending the functionality of its backup and recovery solution, SQL-BackTrack, to include policy-based and centralized management. Through centralized management, BMC Software is providing customers with a consistent method to plan, monitor and manage database backup and recovery across the enterprise from a centralized console. Using SmartDBA Recovery Management, DBAs working in a complex environment are able to easily establish "best practices" for backup and recovery while managing and implementing these policies consistently across a heterogeneous environment. "The ability to assure the health of our business applications by quickly knowing the status of our database backups is extremely valuable from both a time and cost standpoint," said Bill Olver, senior database administrator, Hoag Memorial Healthcare. "Currently I spend about three hours every day reviewing logs to make sure our databases are working as they should and all of our SLAs are being met. Calculate the hourly rate over a month or a year, and SmartDBA Recovery Management could provide us with huge cost savings." Exploding data volumes, limited staff and increasing regulatory requirements are just some of the issues today's IT staff are facing. Coupled with tightening SLAs, the mandate for extremely rapid and predictable database recoveries is very real. SmartDBA Recovery Management addresses these difficult challenges with its unique features, which include: -- Centralized Management -- the ability to monitor the backup and recovery health of multiple databases from a single screen; -- Policy Management -- a mechanism for setting limits to provide alerts when SLAs are at risk or not being met; -- Tailored Views -- provides IT executives with the ability to monitor at the enterprise level, while DBAs can monitor at the system or database level; and -- Proactive Resource Management -- the collection of enterprise level data, which allows users to follow backup and recovery trends. Pricing and Availability SmartDBA Recovery Management v5.0 is available immediately in North America, Europe, Middle East and Africa for Oracle and Sybase databases. Support for DB2 Universal Database distributed platforms and SQL Server will be available in approximately 90 days. For pricing, as well as additional information on BMC Software's SmartDBA family, please visit http://www.bmc.com/solutions/database/ . About BMC Software BMC Software, Inc. (NYSE:BMC), 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 2004 revenues of more than $1.4 billion. For more information about BMC Software, visit http://www.bmc.com/ . BMC Software, the BMC Software logos, and all other BMC Software product or service names are registered trademarks or trademarks of BMC Software, Inc. All other trademarks or registered trademarks belong to their respective companies. http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20011003/BMCLOGO http://photoarchive.ap.org/ DATASOURCE: BMC Software, Inc. CONTACT: public relations, Julie Dearing of BMC Software, Inc., +1-713-918-1434, or ; or Angel Schneider of Porter Novelli, +1-512-241-2238, or , for BMC Software, Inc. Web site: http://www.bmc.com/ http://www.bmc.com/solutions/database

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