BMC Launches MyIT – Bridging the IT/Business Divide
Cross posted from the BMC blog. I spend most of my time talking to technology vendors, IT folks and business people all in an effort to drive organizational benefits through the use of technology. Over years of doing this, I’ve noticed a stark divide that exists within an organization between
Appcara Delivers Cloud Infra and App Management for AWS Based Clouds
Appcara is an unfortunately named (considering the fact that Cloud Foundry creator, and Clouderati pin up boy Derek Collison’s new gig is called Apcera) company in the business of providing automation for cloud deployments. They use a modeling based approach towards designing and deploying cloud infrastructure. Appcara today announced an
BMC Acquires VaraLogix, Releases Version 3.0 of CLM
BMC software the IT service management vendor that is arguably best known for producing the Remedy ITSM product, also has an interest in providing a broad set of tools for the management of enterprise’s IT assets – it’s cloud life management (CLM) and cloud operations management (COM) toolsets are platforms
VMware Rumors Circulate–MyPOV on What the New CEO Should Do
With the tech press going into a tailspin yesterday over long-time Googler Marissa Mayaer being appointed as Yahoo! CEO, an equally exciting piece of news and separate but connected rumor was largely ignored. GigaOM reported that VMware is likely planning to spin off some of its assets into a separate
VMware Acquires DynamicOps–Quick Analysis
News this morning that VMware has acquired DynamicOps for a reported $100-$150M price tag. DynamicOps is a provider of IT management services that (and this is the important bit) span heterogeneous environments. It comes the same day Dell finally announces the fraught with stress acquisition of Quest and marks a rapid heating up of the [...]
More on the IT Business Boiling Point
ver the last few days I’ve been talking to people about the tension that exists between “traditional” and “next generation” software platforms. The discussions had their genesis in a post I wrote specifically looking at NetSuite and Oracle, but relate to a host of other vendors – Microsoft contrasted with Box. IBM contrasted with Appirio [...]
BMC Updates Its Workload Automation Tool
BMC, one of the leading Business Service Management Software companies, today announced significant update to their workload automation tool, Control-M. Control-M is BMC’s solution to help enterprise automate their workloads, instead of a more traditional scheduling, across mainframes, distributed, virtual, hybrid and cloud environments. Control-M is pushed as a one stop solution that eliminates the [...]
BMC Reaches for the Cloud With a New Service Desk Express Offering
A guest post from Rhett Glauser, Service-now.com director of communications. Rhett has spent a decade talking and writing about the IT management industry from the perspective of companies like Service-now.com, Symantec, Altiris and Lineo. These days he spends most of his time communicating the benefits of modern IT service management applications, software-as-a-service, and IT best [...]
