BMC Software Announces Cloud Operations Capabilities to Safeguard Cloud Users

BMC provides enterprises and service providers with the cloud operations capabilities required to support the day-to-day business of running a cloud and meet the expectations of cloud users. Taking a preventative approach, BMC helps avoid cloud failures through the smart management of performance and capacity issues. The BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management solution ensures that, on the first day, cloud services are provisioned and placed according to configurable policy. Once provisioned, on "Day 2” and beyond, BMC’s cloud operations solutions ensure the performance of cloud services consistently meet expectations.

To accomplish this, BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management is integrated with the BMC Capacity Optimization solution and the BMC ProactiveNet Performance Management product. These capabilities combined with BMC End User Experience Management provide proactive performance and capacity management from the end user experience to the underlying infrastructure across flexible, highly dynamic public, private, and hybrid clouds.

Bezeq International, Israel’s leading Internet and international telecommunication provider, recently selected BMC’s cloud management solution.

"BMC is the right strategic partner to enable us to achieve our business goals,” said Gal Ofri, Bezeq International’s director of business development. "BMC’s cloud management solution is a key element in our IT service offerings. Our customers expect reliable and flexible cloud services, and the BMC solution meets these expectations while offering rapid provisioning, operations and management. For that reason, we have decided to choose the BMC solution.”

The addition of cloud operations capabilities allows IT organizations to meet and exceed user expectations by:

• Avoiding outages and degradations in service quality;
• Optimizing investments in infrastructure;
• Maintaining or reducing cloud administrative headcount.

"The calamitous impacts of recent public cloud failures proves definitively that building a cloud is only the first step in a cloud journey,” said Kia Behnia, BMC’s chief technology officer. "Managing the ongoing operations of a ‘hybrid’ cloud including proactive service planning, monitoring and governance to avoid potential failures represents the critical other half of the story and BMC is leading the market in a holistic approach to successful private and hybrid cloud projects.”

Along with these new cloud operations capabilities, BMC is also releasing a Cloud Rapid Deployment service delivered by BMC Global Services. This service allows users to quickly implement the BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management solution in as little as 45 days. This implementation lays the foundation for a well-managed private or public cloud, and can be coupled with broader BMC Global Services offerings for cloud planning and operations.

BMC’s cloud management solutions have been used by more than 400 organizations globally including enterprises, public agencies and service providers.

Partner and Customer Quotes:

• Sarangan Rangachari, senior director, Cloud Business Unit at Red Hat:

"BMC Cloud Management provides a cost-effective cloud infrastructure and provisioning solution with ongoing operations for performance and capacity management with predictive analytics. We are working closely together with BMC to integrate BMC cloud management into Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization so that our joint customers can leverage this technology."

• Steve Loubser, business unit executive for Hosting, Gijima Holdings: