bmc software in comment and analysis
How to baseline power consumption
Comment The alternative suggested by BMC's Bishop is to use existing asset management software to build a detailed database of the system and then cross-reference that with information about expected energy usage to build up a picture of energy consumption. [14 Dec 2007]
How closely are you monitoring?
Comment A PC will give systems management tools a certain amount of information back through the Windows management instrumentation (WMI) built into Windows, says David Solin, R&D solutions architect within the CTO's office at software vendor BMC. [10 Dec 2007]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: All about Itil
Comment The likes of BMC and CA are taking the lead in trying to simplify what Itil is all about. All of a sudden, the likes of BMC, CA, HP and IBM started to show a great deal of interest in Itil. Likewise, BMC's 'swimlane' diagrams take process flows and... [28 Jul 2006]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Grid's a 'no-brainer'
Comment Grid management software is appearing - not only from the high-end players such as DataSynapse and Platform but also from the main systems management players like BMC, CA Unicenter and IBM Tivoli. However, users are unsure of how they want to pay... [18 Nov 2005]
Investors want answers from Microsoft
Comment More broadly, software industry watchers will be looking to the Microsoft report as a possible bright spot in what has been a tough quarter, marked by earnings warnings from Siebel Systems, BMC Software, PeopleSoft and Veritas Software, among others. [22 Jul 2004]
Through the fog… Management of utility IT
Comment Today, several companies occupying front line positions of utility computing - BMC, CA, HP, IBM and Sun, for example - include management as an essential element of their solutions. Various companies had frameworks for sale, including BMC, HP and Sun. [01 Aug 2003]
John Lamb's Week: Compaq under Alpha spotlight
Comment The BMC User Forum at ExCel in London's Docklands promises "2,880 minutes of sheer, unadulterated, technology-loving pleasure" on Tuesday and Wednesday. The software company, together with the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply and... [13 Jul 2001]
John Lamb's Week: Hail the red-eyed road warriors
Comment BMC, which debuts its Patrol Storage Network Manager software on Monday, is the latest entrant in the open storage management market. BMC has developed software that can interrogate a number of otherwise incompatible systems, obtain performance... [02 Feb 2001]
Online cheaters beware
Comment The sites were down for the entire day, a day in which we received a press release from BMC, proclaiming a deal it had just signed with Microsoft to provide the software giant with back-up and continuity services. [26 Jan 2001]
HP OpenView - managing to grow?
Comment While he credits it as one of the top four systems management companies, after CA, IBM's Tivoli and BMC, he describes it as the "laggard" of the group. While CEO Carly Fiorina was issuing a statement admitting full responsibility for the company's... [23 Nov 2000]
Strategic Vision: Giga Information Group on... ebusiness
Comment Today, it is possible to choose from a variety of solutions that claim to offer end-to-end management (Computer Associates, IBM/Tivoli) or vital, extensible partial solutions to the end-to-end management problem (BMC, HP, and a host of others). [01 Sep 1999]
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