BMC Software Leverages Amazon Web Services To Simplify Cloud Deployment

Many large enterprises are extending their service-enabled, virtualised and automated environments to cloud infrastructure services.

To help customers meet this need, BMC Software has announced it is leveraging Amazon Web Services to optimise hybrid IT infrastructure deployments via the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). BMC’s Business Service Management (BSM) platform delivers a unified approach to IT planning, control, compliance, automation and management for extending existing internal IT infrastructures to cloud environments.

"Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides a set of infrastructure services that meet the high demands of our customers," said Terry Wise, director of Business Development for Amazon Web Services. "Together with BMC, we are providing mutual customers with a flexible and scalable way to extend and manage enterprise-class solutions to the cloud."

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Working with BMC, IT organisations will be able to extend their internal data centres to Amazon EC2 via a unified, integrated BSM management solution. Enterprise customers can request computing resources – either internal (physical or virtual) or external from Amazon EC2 – through an integrated self-service portal. Those requests are tracked through BMC’s ITIL-compliant change management system and automatically provisioned and configured in minutes. This self-service interface also supports service de-provisioning and service change requests.

Asset association and tracking of Amazon EC2 resources are integrated with BMC Atrium Configuration Management Database, and configuration compliance is enforced. The integrated solution supports both pre-existing Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) as well as dynamic AMI creation.

"The need for a strong management focus is increasingly important as enterprise organisations leverage external cloud resources to augment their existing infrastructures," said Kia Behnia, chief technology officer for BMC’s Enterprise Service Management business unit. "Our BSM platform is designed to enable organisations to request, orchestrate and provision capacity across their existing internal IT resources and clouds in minutes."