Industry First: BMC Software Delivers Integrated, Simultaneous Management of Virtual...

Industry First: BMC Software Delivers Integrated, Simultaneous Management of Virtual and Physical IT Environments

-- Manages the complete virtualization lifecycle, working across
a broad range of technologies, processes, vendors and
platforms, including mainframe

-- Enables full virtualization of mission-critical applications,
ensuring maximum production-level ROI, not just small pilot
programs

-- Provides customers with direct control over risk and
complexity in fully virtualized data centers
HOUSTON--(Business Wire)--
BMC Software (NYSE:BMC) today announced that customer adoption of
its Business Service Management platform continues to escalate
dramatically, in part because it provides customers with unique
virtualization management solutions designed to simultaneously manage
mission-critical applications across both virtual and physical IT
environments.

Currently, only BMC delivers fully-integrated, native
virtualization management solutions that unify the control and
management of both environments into a single view. This ability
allows customers to manage risk and ROI across the full lifecycle of
virtual data centers, including both distributed and mainframe
environments. Other vendor offerings have been limited to managing
virtual machines, often without reference to ramifications that
virtualization has on the processes and management of the larger
infrastructure.

"To effectively operate and maintain your physical infrastructure,
you need solutions that can manage all of your assets, a CMDB that
supports them and an understanding of the relationships between them.
Not surprisingly, these are the same requirements to effectively
manage your virtual infrastructure," said Mike Smith, Teranet's
director of data utility. "With BMC's virtualization management
solutions, we maintain control of our combined physical and virtual
infrastructure so that we can enjoy the benefits that virtualization
technologies provide."

More and more companies, faced with the radically increasing costs
of managing large physical IT environments, have been embracing the
idea of data center virtualization. However, while virtualized IT
environments clearly pose great potential benefits, they also present
major hurdles that must be overcome. For example, IT organizations
have quickly realized that virtualization can add great complexity to
already challenging IT environments, making implementation and
management of both environments a daunting task. IT processes such as
discovery, monitoring, problem resolution and change management must
be adapted to properly understand and control both environments. Other
significant barriers include virtualization sprawl, lack of unified
controls and unpredictable service levels.

In addition, leading research firm Enterprise Management
Associates has found that 98 percent of enterprises implementing
virtualization do so using multiple platforms, technologies and
vendors, only further adding to the complexity.(1) As a result,
organizations often blink, delaying full production-level
virtualization and losing the extraordinary benefits of this highly
strategic approach.

Through Business Service Management, BMC customers use identical,
fully-integrated processes to manage both the physical and virtual
infrastructure. BMC solutions control the full lifecycle of
virtualized enterprise IT infrastructure and services - from planning
and configuration to ongoing management - across a broad range of
virtual and physical technologies, platforms and vendors. By
optimizing operations for both physical and virtual infrastructure, IT
organizations can leverage virtualization to roll out new services and
respond quickly to changing business needs.

"Our data center faced significant challenges requiring an
excessive use of time, money and resources. We recognized that the
development of a virtualization strategy was essential to improve
business resiliency within our organization," said Al Johnson,
director of IT operations, Williams Companies. "BMC's BSM expertise
across both physical and virtual environments helped us improve our
process capabilities and governance, reduce costs and create a more
reliable, efficient and environmentally responsible IT
infrastructure."

BMC virtualization management solutions support a robust BSM
approach that employs strong process and control methodology based on
widely-adopted industry frameworks, such as the IT Infrastructure
Library(R) (ITIL(R)). Additionally, BMC's recent acquisition of
BladeLogic extends the capability to manage the configuration of both
physical and virtual environments including the ability to provision
new virtual infrastructure, manage configuration change control,
migrate applications across environments and ensure compliance with
security, operational and regulatory requirements.

BMC virtualization management solutions are based on BMC Atrium,
the service-enabling architecture that provides the foundation for
BSM. Out-of-the-box integration with the BMC Atrium CMDB simplifies
and speeds deployment allowing organizations to take an incremental,
building-block approach to BSM.

For more information about BMC's virtualization management
solutions, visit: http://www.bmc.com/virtualization.

About BMC Software

BMC Software is a leading global provider of enterprise management
solutions that empower companies to automate their IT and prove its
business value. Delivering Business Service Management and Service
Automation, BMC solutions span enterprise systems, applications,
databases and service management. For the four fiscal quarters ended
March 31, 2008, BMC revenue was approximately $1.73 billion. For more
information, visit www.bmc.com.

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(1) Enterprise Management Associates(R) (EMA(TM)): Virtualization:
Planning the Full IT Lifecycle white paper prepared for BMC Software,
April 2008.

BMC Software
Mark Stouse, +1 (832) 715-0234
mark_stouse@bmc.com
or
Sarah Pocock, +44 7889-642086
sarah_pocock@bmc.com
or
Waggener Edstrom
Andrea Zack, +1 (512) 527-7013
azack@waggeneredstrom.com

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