BMC Software and Oracle Corp. team to broaden system management capabilities for Oracle users; BMC Software to integrate PATROL with Oracle Enterprise Manager.HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 30, 1996--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) ) Tuesday announced it has teamed with Oracle Corp. to integrate its PATROL product suite with Oracle Enterprise Manager through the PATROLVIEW(TM) product. The integration increases the breadth of databases and applications supported by Oracle Enterprise Manager, as well as providing PATROL customers with an even greater choice in the way they view their managed environment. "The integration with PATROL, one of the leading application management solutions, will expand the capabilities of the Oracle Enterprise Manager to include the management of additional databases and applications, allowing our customers to reduce the complexity of managing their heterogeneous environments," said Mark Jarvis, senior director of Oracle's server technologies marketing. "And because of the tight integration between product sets, the source of these capabilities is transparent to the user, eliminating the traditional learning curve associated with implementing new tools and enabling our customers to be productive immediately when managing these areas." "Our goal with PATROL is to take a pragmatic approach to delivering the broadest management capabilities to customers," said Leland Putterman, vice president of worldwide marketing for 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. . "We accomplish this by delivering solutions for managing all major databases and applications and by partnering with companies to tightly integrate the PATROL functionality with leading management consoles and frameworks, such as Oracle Enterprise Manager. "This gives customers a comprehensive management solution and a choice of console that best meet their company's or organizations needs and in many cases allows them to use the console or consoles that are already in place." The PATROL Product Suite 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 automates and centralizes the control of all the critical elements in enterprise-wide distributed application An application made up of distinct components running in separate runtime environments, usually on different platforms connected via a network. Typical distributed applications management -- applications, data, databases and servers. The PATROL architecture consists of 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). (s), Knowledge Modules (KMs) and management console(s). KMs are encapsulated expertise about how to manage objects in the environment. KMs provide the agent with more product-specific information, allowing a single agent to manage all the components and objects associated with a server. Customers have the flexibility to use the PATROL console or through PATROLVIEW, customers can view and manage their environments through third party system and network management consoles. Oracle Enterprise Manager Oracle Enterprise Manager is Oracle's recently announced systems management platform. It provides a comprehensive framework for integrated management of the Oracle environment. From a single console, database and system administrators can easily configure databases & systems, tune and trouble-shoot application performance, and distribute software throughout the enterprise. Oracle Enterprise Manager provides multiple integration points for third-party products through published application programming interfaces, as well as open industry standards like the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) A widely used network monitoring and control protocol. Data are passed from SNMP agents, which are hardware and/or software processes reporting activity in each network device (hub, router, bridge, etc. ). Integrated applications are launched from the console, offering a single point of control based on a common look-and-feel, and use an intelligent agent for efficient job scheduling and event monitoring. Integration With Oracle Enterprise Manager Through PATROLVIEW A high level of integration between PATROLVIEW and Oracle Enterprise Manager will be available through agent-to-agent communication. Using Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) at the agent level, PATROL-detected events are translated and passed directly to the Oracle Enterprise Manager event manager, providing event consolidation from a number of sources. With agent-to-agent integration, PATROL also will auto-correct events within its span of control and pass other events on to the Oracle Enterprise Manager system. This high level of integration means that customers can view PATROL data with the same look and feel as Oracle data within the Oracle Enterprise Manager console. PATROLVIEW also is available for other leading system and network management frameworks including Cabletron SPECTRUM, CA-Unicenter, HP OpenView Operations Center, NetView for AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) IBM's Unix-based operating system which runs on its Intellistation workstations and pSeries, p5, iSeries and i5 server families. , Solstice solstice (sŏl`stĭs) [Lat.,=sun stands still], in astronomy, either of the two points on the ecliptic that lie midway between the equinoxes (separated from them by an angular distance of 90°). SunNet Manager, Tivoli TME See Tivoli Systems Management Software. and Digital's Polycenter Manager. Breadth of Environments Supported To assist Oracle customers in managing their enterprise computing environment, PATROL extends the capabilities of the Oracle Enterprise Manager in the areas of heterogenous (spelling) heterogenous - It's spelled heterogeneous. databases and applications. PATROL currently supports the leading databases including CA-OpenIngres, DB2(a) for OS/2, DB2 for AIX, Informix, Oracle, Rdb, SQL Server and Sybase on major platforms from AT&T, Bull, Data General, DEC, HP, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) (a), NCR (NCR Corporation, Dayton, OH, www.ncr.com) A technology company specializing in financial terminal transactions, retail systems and data warehousing. Until the late 1990s, NCR was heavily invested in the hardware side of the industry, known worldwide as a major manufacturer of computers , Olivetti, Pyramid, Sequent, SCO Unix, SGI (SGI, Sunnyvale, CA, www.sgi.com) A manufacturer of workstations and servers, founded in 1982 by Jim Clark. The company was founded as Silicon Graphics, Inc., but changed to its acronym in 1999. MIPS (Million Instructions Per Second) The execution speed of a computer. For example, .5 MIPS is 500,000 instructions per second; 100 MIPS is a hundred million instructions per second. , Siemens/Nixdorf, Silicon Graphics, Sun, Unisys and Microsoft. Applications supported by PATROL include Oracle Financials and Lotus Notes, with additional announcements in the first quarter of 1996. Availability and Pricing PATROLVIEW for Oracle Enterprise Manager will be available within 60 days of the availability of Oracle Enterprise Manager from Oracle. The current PATROLVIEW products are priced at $2,500 (USA list) per management console. For more information, visit BMC Software at http://www.bmc.com/ on the World Wide Web, or call 800/841-2031 or 713/918-8800. About BMC Software BMC Software, Inc. is a worldwide developer and vendor of more than 100 software solutions for automating application and data management across host-based and open systems environments. With annual revenues in excess of $340 million, BMC Software is the world's 12th largest independent software vendor and is headquartered in Houston. About Oracle Oracle Corp., a $3 billion company, is the world's largest supplier of software for information management, and the world's second largest software company. The company offers its database, tools and applications products along with related consulting, education and support services support services Psychology Non-health care-related ancillary services–eg, transportation, financial aid, support groups, homemaker services, respite services, and other services in more than 90 countries around the world. For more information about Oracle, contact Oracle's headquarters at 415/506-7000. Oracle's World Wide Web address is (URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. ) http://www.oracle.com/. -0- NOTE TO EDITORS: BMC Software, the BMC Software logo and all other products or service names are registered trademarks or trademarks of BMC Software, Inc. in the USA and other select countries. The (R) and (TM) symbols indicate USA registration or USA trademarks. (a) IBM and DB2, Oracle and Oracle Enterprise Manager, Informix, CA Sequent and Sun, are trademarks or registered trademarks of, respectively, International Business Machines Corp., Oracle Corp., Informix Software, Inc., Computer Associates Int'l, Inc., Sequent Computer Systems, Inc. and Sun Microsystems, Inc. Other third-party logos and products/trade names are registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective companies. BMC Software 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. . Oracle is a trademark of Oracle Corporation. Oracle Enterprise Manager is a trademark of Oracle Corporation. BMC Software, the BMC Software logo and all other products or service names are registered trademarks or trademarks of BMC Software, Inc. in the USA and other select countries. The (R) and (TM) symbols indicate USA registration or USA trademarks. All other logos and products/trade names are registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective owner companies. CONTACT: BMC Software, Inc., Houston Lisa Cradit, 713/918-8800 or Oracle Corp. Dan Berkowitz, 415/506-3614 |
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