Cisco and BMC Software Deliver Major Breakthrough in Management for Unified Computing System
SAN JOSE, CA and HOUSTON, TX--(Marketwire - March 16, 2009) - 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."
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