BMC Development Platform Benefits Enterprise cloud computing

July 30, BMC software company (NYSE:BMC) formally announced in China to apply business Services management (BSM) to the cloud computing environment, providing Chinese customers with a unified management of the physical, virtual, and cloud environments to help them grow their businesses more efficiently.

The power of cloud computing is increasingly revealing, enabling businesses to implement on-demand applications and services through highly scalable and cost-effective infrastructure. This is particularly appealing for service-oriented and cost-sensitive IT organizations.

While many it vendors are still working hard to create cloud computing solutions, some companies have benefited from cloud computing in their existing IT environments with tools, technologies, and programs provided by the BMC software company BSM platform. By working with IT organizations and service providers, the BMC is introducing service management capabilities, automation, and control of the user's existing physical and virtual environments into the cloud environment and ensuring that they remain above the original level.

The core competencies of BSM platform include service automation, service support, service guarantee, service optimization and atrium platform, which can be used in cloud environment to help users achieve the following applications:

• Build Private cloud as a new generation of automation and virtual data centers

• Establish a unified, operational directory of services for internal and external IT services, service-level joint agreements and costs

• Tiered service levels and management based on different cloud customer sets

• Provide self-service service requirements and provide users with cloud resources and services

• Achieve cloud resource coordination, provisioning, service change, monitoring, and management automation

• Workload management automation, including real-time virtual machine configuration

• Accurately forecast and track service costs incurred in the cloud environment

• Maintain a "single real data source" in the Configuration Management database (CMDB) Even if the cloud environment evolves

Today, most businesses and analysts see private clouds as an important starting point, and they have far-reaching implications for it restructuring. "Architecture experts and operational experts in many organizations are starting to adopt this ' cloud computing ' concept and build their own internal cloud," says Forrester Research, an industry-leading independent analytics firm. While cloud computing is cool, taking action around IT operations can be dangerous. "(From:" Cloud "in the enterprise to achieve the benefits of", Forrester Research Company, April 2009).

Cloud computing, which provides applications and services on demand with highly scalable, low-cost infrastructure, is a powerful attraction, especially in today's cost-sensitive, service-oriented it enterprises.

While many it vendors are trying to create cloud solutions, smart businesses are already using the BMC Software Company (NYSE: BMC) Business Services Management (BSM) platform to realize the benefits of the cloud by using off-the-shelf tools, technologies, and processes in their current environment.

The BMC is working with it enterprises and service providers to bring their desired level of service management capabilities, automation, and control from the entity and virtual environments to the cloud plan. These customer discoveries can be used to BSM core competencies, including service automation, service support, service assurance, service optimization, and atrium platforms for the following purposes:

Building a private cloud as a virtual data center for next-generation automation

Establish a unified, operational "service catalog" for internal and external IT services and related service level agreements and costs

Set up tiered service levels and manage for different cloud customer groups

Self-service request and implementation of cloud resources and services for customers

Automates the coordination, provisioning, service change, monitoring, and management of cloud resources

Automates load management, including real-time virtual machine provisioning

Accurately predict and track the cost of delivering services in the cloud

Maintain a single source of truth in the Configuration Management database (CMDB), even if the cloud environment evolves