BMC and Tripwire Strengthen Alliance, Collaborate on BMC Service Automation.

* Market leading Tripwire Enterprise 7 solution provides "compliance cornerstone" for BMC Service Automation, providing customers with full IT operational, regulatory and security compliance

VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- BMC UserWorld Americas

BMC Software (NYSE:BMC) today announced a strengthening of its three-year alliance with Tripwire, a global leader in data center compliance software and the first company in the industry to provide customers with full IT operational, regulatory and security compliance across heterogeneous environments.

Tripwire is a major supporter of the BMC Business Service Management and BMC Service Automation strategies, and the two companies will collaborate closely to advance Tripwire's compliance offering as a key part of BMC Service Automation.

"Tripwire sees BMC as the clear leader in Service Automation, both in terms of strategy and the current state of its solutions," said Dan Schoenbaum, Tripwire's senior vice president of marketing and corporate development. "BMC understands very clearly that one of the critical keys to successful Service Automation is a full understanding of the customer's IT environment so that you can help put it in a known and trusted state, keep it there, and prove its compliance. Tripwire is proud to be a fundamental component of the BMC Service Automation strategy and offering."

The Portland, Oregon-based company recently launched Tripwire Enterprise 7, which provides customers with an automated, continuous and data center-wide compliance solution that works hand in hand with BMC Service Automation solutions such as BMC Atrium 2.0. Acting as the "compliance solution" within BMC Service Automation, Tripwire Enterprise 7 works closely with BMC solutions to proactively assess configuration settings for infrastructure and leading applications, automate detection of unauthorized change across the service delivery stack, provide real-time and historical compliance reporting, and enable management to hold the entire organization accountable to all types of IT policies.

This unified approach provides the means for IT to use existing technology more efficiently and effectively while managing risk by providing continuous, automated compliance in any data center environment. In fact, Tripwire is the only solution to provide visibility to all change in the enterprise, spanning servers, network devices, databases, directory services and virtual environments. Coupled with BMC solutions, Tripwire Enterprise 7 helps IT achieve complete Service Automation, helping the enterprise achieve and maintain a known, trusted and compliant state.

"BMC Service Automation is a strategy that links people, process and technology to create a tightly integrated, automated service delivery capability," said Mary Morgan, Senior Program Executive, BMC. "This strategy ensures that each individual technology investment works in unison to help IT reach its long-term goals of complete Service Automation. One of BMC's closest partners, Tripwire is fundamental to a successful Service Automation strategy as it provides service-level compliance, allows IT to leverage ITIL[R] v3 and other best practices to gain an understanding of the environment, and controls change with policy-based actions."

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