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What's New in BMC BladeLogic Operations Manager

The attendee of this webcast will learn more about the latest releases across the BMC BladeLogic product family and how one can benefit from these improvements to maximize the full value of the installation. The new reporting module will be discussed as well as complementary solutions for network and desktop...

Tags: BMC Software Inc., BladeLogic, It Management, Blade Servers, It service Management, Servers, Hardware

Webcasts 2009-07-01

BMC buys BladeLogic, eyes data center automation

BMC said Monday that it will buy BladeLogic, which specializes in automating data centers, for $800 million, or $28 a share. The news comes on the heels of a bevy of data center announcements from HP, which is hoping enterprises go for its data center as a...

Tags: BMC Software Inc., Data Center, BladeLogic, Automation, Data Centers, Blade Servers, It Management, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Servers, It service Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-03-17

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BMC picks up MQSoftware, expands into middleware management

BMC Software said Monday that it has acquired MQSoftware in a move that will expand its offering from mainframe and systems monitoring to middleware. Terms of the deal weren't disclosed statement. BMC positioned the move as a natural evolution to provide monitoring from the mainframe to the...

Tags: BMC Software Inc., Mqsoftware Inc., Middleware, It Management, It service Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-08-10

Reductive to service Puppet open source configman tools

Key founders of Puppet have incorporated and received $2 million in venture capital funding to advance the open source configuration management software project. Reductive Labs,  which has evolved from the same named consulting firm founded in 2003, will provide training, service and support for Puppet, the next...

Tags: Open Source, Configuration Management, Tool, Reductive, Puppet 0.25, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2009-06-24

Global Challenges of IT Automation

Automate manual IT processes related to batch scheduling, change management, configuration management, alerting, regulatory compliance, and trouble-ticket resolution to simplify IT, cut costs, and focus on IT innovation. To automate several operational tasks, the Dell IT group deployed BMC CONTROL-M for Distributed Systems and BMC BladeLogic Operations Manager, and is...

Tags: BMC Software Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Information Technology, Automation, It Management, Strategy, It service Management, Management

Case studies 2009-06-01

VMware wants to be your network operating system of choice

Whenever a company changes the name of their major product you often have to wonder what level of change they are trying to signal. In the case of VMware which changed ESX to vSphere yesterday, the signal is one of intent. They could have called it vWorldDomination but that might...

Tags: Fault-tolerance, Data Center, Network, Operating System, Network Operating System, VMware Inc., vSphere, VM, Fault-tolerance Feature, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, James Staten

Blog posts 2009-04-22

Racemi and BMC take on disaster recovery and datacenter consolidation

Racemi and BMC Software are presenting a different take on how to go about the task of making virtual servers more highly available and more manageable. They're combining a physical/virtual management product BladeLogic Operations Manager with a powerful disaster recovery/backup/system portability product DynaCenter to create a reliable, agile computing environment....

Tags: BMC Software Inc., Data Center, Virtual Server, Provisioning, Server, Data Center Consolidation, Disaster Recovery, Racemi, It Management, It service Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-02-20

Adaptive infrastructure no longer vision

Adaptive infrastructure no longer visionstandardization with a single vendor isn't the only optionJames,Great post on how yesterday?s vision of the data center is today becoming a reality. While you understandably highlighted the largest players and their quest to homogenize data centers with their line of products, I have to...

Tags: Data centers, Storage, data center, vision, Adaptive Infrastructure

Discussion threads 2009-01-27

News to know: Apple; Hakia; EclipseCon; ActiveX security

Notable headlines: David Morgenstern: Did Microsoft beat Apple to dual-sided touch technology? Jason O'Grady: Apple bumps Airport Express to 802.11n Paul Miller: hakia licenses OntoSem technology to third parties Paula Rooney: Run-time rival for Java, .NET? Dana Gardner: EclipseCon debuts...

Tags: Security, Data Center, Hewlett-Packard Co., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., ActiveX, Data Centers, Semantic Web, Storage, ActiveX/COM/COM+/DCOM, Hardware, Data Management, Internet, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-03-18

Automating server management

Improving IT administrator-to-server ratios is not just an outcome of server consolidation--server automation suites are gaining converts and become more affordable for smaller companies. Server automation can include capabilities ranging from bare metal imaging, configuration management and software distribution to security assessment, multi-step process management and rapid recovery from faults....

Tags: server

Blog posts 2004-11-03

Preparing for ITIL Initiatives: ITs DC Challenge - The Forest & the Trees

IT organizations need to identify, control, verify, and manage their complex data center environments to meet ITIL and ITSM framework initiatives. The challenge that IT faces is finding and controlling the trees within the forest of their datacenters. The first step with any ITIL initiative is to "Discover" and "Map"...

Tags: Data Center, Information Technology, nLayers, ITIL, Data Centers, Process Improvement, It Services, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Quality, Business Operations

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