BMC Software, Sun Microsystems Alliance Delivers Best Practices, Increased Availability and Performance for Customers.HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 28, 1999-- SunIT Internally Implements PATROL(R) and RESOLVE(R) Solutions by BMC Software BMC Software, Inc. NYSE: BMC, is an American enterprise management software provider, focusing on IT infrastructure applications. BMC was founded in 1980 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas. BMC Software (Nasdaq:BMCS BMCS Bristol Muslim Cultural Society (UK) BMCS Senior Chief Boatswain's Mate (Naval Rating) BMCS Blue Mountains Conservation Society (Wentworth Falls, NSW, Australia) ), the leading developer of software solutions that improve the availability, performance and recoverability of business-critical applications and data, today announced a new worldwide strategic alliance agreement with Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. . As part of the alliance, Sun is implementing BMC (BMC Software, Inc., Houston, TX, www.bmc.com) A leading supplier of software that supports and improves the availability, performance, and recovery of applications in complex computing environments. Software's PATROL and RESOLVE product lines both internally and through its Sun Professional Services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. (Sun PS) organization. As a result, Sun is developing real-world "best practices" which they plan to utilize in customer environments. "Using BMC Software solutions internally allows both SunIT and Professional Services to get hands-on experience in a real environment. Sun's Professional Services Organization has turned this internal knowledge into productive and cost effective solutions for customers implementing e-business, ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer. and server consolidation," said Paul Rochester Paul Rochester (born 1938) attended Michigan State University. He played defensive tackle in the American Football League for the Dallas Texans/Kansas City Chiefs, and the New York Jets. , vice president and general manager of Sun Professional Services. As a member of BMC Software's PATROL Developer Network (PDN (1) (Packet Data Network) See packet switching. (2) (Premises Distribution Network) The network that connects a customer's ADSL transceiver (ATU-R) to the Service Modules (PCs, routers, set-top boxes, etc.). See DSL. ((TM))) program, Sun also will roll out two new PATROL Knowledge Modules(TM) (KMs) -- Sun Cluster Sun Cluster (sometimes SunCluster) is a high-availability cluster software product for the Solaris Operating System, created by Sun Microsystems. It is used to improve the availability of software services such as databases, file sharing on a network, electronic commerce KM for PATROL and Sun Ultra Enterprise KM for PATROL. With these new products, customers now have a complete PATROL high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. solution for the Sun environment. This allows them to integrate events and alarms from the Sun Ultra Enterprise range while enabling administrators to continually monitor and automatically react to cluster information, thus decreasing the likelihood of a failure. Sun also is including these products as part of its e-business, ERP and IT Operations practices for high availability, performance and recovery. All three BMC Software products are integral to Sun's ".com your enterprise" initiative. BMC Software Professional Services will team with Sun Professional Services to utilize BEST/1(R) for server consolidation, capacity planning Determining the required future configuration of hardware and software for a network, datacenter or Web site. There are numerous capacity planning tools on the market used to monitor and analyze the performance of the current hardware and software. and performance analysis. SunPS also will resell, implement and customize services for PATROL, BEST/1 and SQL-BackTrack(TM) worldwide. Sun is now the world's largest user of SQL-BackTrack. "The alliance of the Sun and BMC Software's Professional Services guarantees Sun customers the most effective PATROL implementation, uniquely customized to their environment with the Sun-developed PATROL management bundles," said Chip Nemesi, vice-president of Professional Services at BMC Software. "Add to this Sun's use of BEST/1 for server consolidation, capacity planning and performance analysis and the solution is complete." Pricing and Availability The availability and pricing of the new Sun developed PATROL Knowledge Modules vary by region, and are available now from Sun Professional Services. Contact Sun Professional Services or BMC Software for information on these management packages and for BEST/1 or SQL-BackTrack software and services. About BMC Software BMC Software is the world's leading provider of management solutions that ensure the availability, performance, and recovery of companies' business-critical applications. This "application service assurance(TM)" strategy means that the applications companies and their customers rely on most stay up and running, around the clock. For more than 18 years, the world's leading companies have relied on BMC Software. BMC Software is among the world's largest independent software vendors, a Forbes 500 company and is a member of the S&P 500, with fiscal year 1999 revenues exceeding $1.3 billion. The company is headquartered in Houston, with offices worldwide. For more information, visit BMC Software's Web site at http://www.bmc.com, or please call 800/841-2031 or 713/918-8800. BMC Software, the BMC Software logos, and all other BMC Software product or service names are registered trademarks or trademarks of BMC Software Inc. All other trademarks or registered trademarks belong to their respective companies. (c) 1999 BMC Software, Inc. All rights reserved. |
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