BMC Software Integrates Award-Winning PATROL Product with Computer Associates' Industry-Leading Unicenter TNG.HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 17, 1998-- Customers Ability to Monitor and Manage Applications Extended by PATROLVIEW for Unicenter TNG TNG Training TNG The Next Generation TNG Tongue TNG The Newspaper Guild (Union) TNG Transitional National Government TNG Telescopio Nazionale Galileo (national facility of the Italian astronomical community) 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. , Inc. and Computer Associates International, Inc. today announced development of a "Unicentered" version of 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 PATROLVIEW(TM) products, part of BMC Software's award-winning PATROL(R) Management Suite of products. The PATROLVIEW for Unicenter TNG product enables customers to seamlessly use the advanced application management and monitoring facilities of BMC Software's PATROL product suite within the robust enterprise environment of Unicenter TNG. This integration also gives IT departments already using PATROL the ability to leverage its application management capabilities by implementing them in the context of Unicenter TNG's sophisticated end-to-end management environment. "BMC Software's integration of PATROL with Unicenter TNG further extends the choices that CA is offering our clients for managing their mission-critical applications," said Yogesh Gupta, CA senior vice president of product strategy. "This latest addition to our partner solutions portfolio further strengthens Unicenter TNG's position as the best strategic choice for the management of complex enterprise computing Refers to information technology in the larger company. See enterprise data and enterprise networking. environments -- in terms of openness, comprehensive functionality, application integration and overall value." "PATROL is widely acclaimed as the premier solution for managing the health of applications," said Leland Putterman, vice president of worldwide marketing for BMC Software. "We provide the broadest suite of solutions in the industry, the greatest functional depth and we integrate into leading framework vendors. By offering a suite of management solutions that support Unicenter TNG, we continue to address the needs of our customers by providing integrated solution sets." Tom Ellis Tom Ellis may refer to:
Arthur Andersen LLP, based in Chicago, was once one of the "Big Five" accounting firms (the other four are PricewaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Ernst & Young and KPMG), performing partner responsible for IT Infrastructure Management solutions with Andersen's Computer Risk Management practice, sees a need for offerings like PATROL, and observes that, "PATROLVIEW for Unicenter TNG will improve the overall health of enterprise applications. Clients gain a more tightly coupled See tight coupling. application and infrastructure strategy which helps ensure the integrity and availability of data." The integrated PATROL/Unicenter TNG offering is an outgrowth of CA's "Unicentered" program that provides CA's partners with strategic support for integrating and enhancing their solutions for use with Unicenter TNG and the Unicenter TNG Framework. Unicentered partners receive a wide range of exclusive development, marketing, and training support from CA. PATROLVIEW for Unicenter TNG enables customers to monitor PATROL Agent resources through Unicenter TNG topology maps. As a result, customers can view, monitor, control and manage applications, Internet/intranet servers, middleware, databases and other resources managed by the PATROL Management Suite from their Unicenter TNG consoles. The integration allows customers to obtain significant additional value from PATROL by applying Unicenter TNG's advanced cross-platform correlation, consolidation and automated-action capabilities to PATROL-supplied management data. PATROL users also gain the benefits of Unicenter TNG's unique capabilities such as Business Process Views; advanced user interface capabilities, including 2D, 3D and Web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. interfaces; and management from wireless handheld devices. The integration of PATROL and Unicenter TNG extends an existing partnership between the two companies. BMC Software already provides management support for CA information management solutions through the PATROL Knowledge Module(TM) for CA-OpenIngres, which provides robust monitoring and management of CA's popular relational database relational database Database in which all data are represented in tabular form. The description of a particular entity is provided by the set of its attribute values, stored as one row or record of the table, called a tuple. . Availability and Pricing PATROLVIEW for Unicenter TNG is planned for general availability in Q2 1998 and is the latest in a series of third-party management applications to receive "Unicentered" certification. Pricing starts at $2,500 (U.S. list). BMC Software solutions for CA, along with its entire product suite, are available from BMC Software and its agents and its distributors worldwide. About the PATROL Management Suite BMC Software's PATROL Management Suite of products optimize the service provided to users of an application by automating and centralizing the control of critical elements including data, databases, servers, middleware, applications, networks and server hardware across Unix, NT, OpenVMS, MVS (Multiple Virtual Storage) Introduced in 1974, the primary operating system used with IBM mainframes (the others are VM and DOS/VSE). MVS is a batch processing-oriented operating system that manages large amounts of memory and disk space. , NetWare and OS/2. PATROL uses a single server-based Intelligent Autonomous Agent An autonomous agent is a system situated in, and part of, an environment, which senses that environment, and acts on it, over time, in pursuit of its own agenda. This agenda evolves from drives (or programmed goals). with an open and extensible architecture to enable BMC Software and other solution providers to develop PATROL Knowledge Modules (KM) to populate the agent with knowledge specific to the objects being managed. PATROL then automatically discovers the environment; continuously surveys the systems, identifies and corrects problems, or initiates warnings. In addition, BMC Software integrates the management and monitoring capabilities of PATROL with leading management frameworks via the PATROLVIEW products. About Unicenter TNG Unicenter TNG is an integrated enterprise management solution that enables organizations to manage all IT resources, encompassing heterogeneous networks, systems, applications, and databases. It provides comprehensive end-to-end enterprise management for TCP/IP TCP/IP in full Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol Standard Internet communications protocols that allow digital computers to communicate over long distances. , SNA (Systems Network Architecture) IBM's mainframe network standards introduced in 1974. Originally a centralized architecture with a host computer controlling many terminals, enhancements, such as APPN and APPC (LU 6. , IPX/SPX See IPX. and DECnet networks, and 40 platforms including desktops, Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. , UNIX, AS/400, NetWare and mainframe environments. Unicenter TNG is the only fully integrated management solution covering network discovery, topology, performance, events and status, security, software distribution, storage, workload, help desk, change management and other functions for traditional and distributed computing environments, as well as for the Internet and intranets. Unicenter TNG's intelligent manager/agent technology delivers highly scalable management of the entire computing environment, including hardware and software. About BMC Software BMC Software, Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :BMCS BMCS Bristol Muslim Cultural Society (UK) BMCS Senior Chief Boatswain's Mate (Naval Rating) BMCS Blue Mountains Conservation Society (Wentworth Falls, NSW, Australia) ) is a worldwide developer and vendor of more than 160 software solutions that improve the availability, performance and recoverability of business-critical applications and data. BMC Software is the world's 12th largest independent software vendor and a Forbes 500 company, with calendar 1997 revenues exceeding $675 million. The company is headquartered in Houston with offices, distributors and agents in 50 markets worldwide. For more information on BMC Software, access the World Wide Web at www.bmc.com or call 800/841-2031 or 713/918-8800. About Computer Associates Computer Associates International, Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :CA), with headquarters in Islandia, N.Y., is the world leader in mission-critical business software. The company develops, licenses and supports more than 500 integrated products that include enterprise computing and information management, application development, manufacturing and financial applications. CA has over 11,000 people in 160 offices in 43 countries and had revenue of $4.5 billion in calendar year 1997. CA can be reached by visiting http://www.cai.com on the World Wide Web, emailing info@cai.com, or calling 516/342-5224. -0- Note to Editors: BMC Software, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer equal opportunity employer An employer or enterprise that does not discriminate against a job candidate, or subject him/her to adverse exclusionary criteria, based on race, sex, religion, or national origin. See Equal employment opportunity. . BMC Software, the BMC Software logos, PATROL, PATROL Knowledge Module, PATROLVIEW, and Intelligent Autonomous Agent are registered trademarks or trademarks of BMC Software, Inc. in the USA and in other select countries. (R) and (TM) indicate USA registration or USA trademark. Unicenter and Unicenter TNG Framework are registered trademarks of Computer Associates International, Inc. Other logos and product/trade names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. CONTACT: BMC Software Heather Real, 713/918-1649 heather_real@bmc.com or Computer Associates Bob Gordon, 516/342-2391 bobg@cai.com |
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