EMC Named BMC Software Business Service Management Foundation Partner for Storage.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 15, 2003 Completes Phase 1 Integration of EMC (1) (EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA, www.emc.com) The leading supplier of storage products for midrange computers and mainframes. Founded in 1979 by Richard J. Egan and Roger Marino, EMC has developed advanced storage and retrieval technologies for the world's largest companies. ControlCenter with 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. PATROL(R), Enabling Customers to More Closely Link Storage with Business Processes EMC Corporation EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) is an American Fortune 500 and S&P 500 manufacturer of software and systems for information management and storage. It is headquartered in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, USA. today announced that it has been named the Foundation Partner for storage as part 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 Business Service Management (BSM BSM Business Service Management BSM Basic Security Module BSM Best Stations Memory (Pioneer car stereos) BSM Business Systems Modernization BSM Bronze Star Medal BSM Black Student Movement BSM Benilde-St. ) initiative. As a Foundation Partner, EMC is working with BMC Software to tightly integrate the EMC ControlCenter family of open storage management software with BMC Software's enterprise management solutions to provide customers with comprehensive, end-to-end end-to-end a pattern of anastomosis in which severed ends are matched and united, in contrast with other patterns such as end-to-side or side-to-side. Usually applied to anastomosis of the intestine. management from a business perspective. EMC and BMC Software also announced that they have completed Phase 1 integration, enabling ControlCenter to send storage-specific events (e.g. capacity, performance and device availability warnings) to BMC Software's PATROL(R) Enterprise Manager. Through Phase 1 integration, PATROL users are now presented with a single, active view of their IT infrastructure, including status alerts of the storage environment. This integration improves the availability of critical business processes by speeding root cause analysis. Future integration will enable ControlCenter customers to leverage PATROL's application awareness, giving storage administrators a broader and more granular granular /gran·u·lar/ (gran´u-lar) made up of or marked by presence of granules or grains. gran·u·lar adj. 1. Composed or appearing to be composed of granules or grains. 2. view of the entire IT environment. Moving forward, the companies will provide additional integration of ControlCenter and Remedy(R), a BMC Software company, IT Service Management (ITSM ITSM Information Technology Service Management ITSM Information Technology Security Manager ITSM Indirect Tensile Stiffness Modulus ITSM Information Technology System Management ITSM Ibm Tivoli Storage Manager ITSM It Service Management ) suite and BMC(R) Service Impact Manager to extend the association of storage assets with business processes. From this integration, customers will gain streamlined trouble ticketing processes, additional automation of storage provisioning capabilities, and improved productivity of storage management staff. Mark Lewis, EMC's Executive Vice President of Open Software Operations, said, "Today's announcement highlights the range of strategic and technical synergies that EMC and BMC Software bring forth for our mutual customers. Integration between ControlCenter and BMC's BSM solutions opens up an entirely new business-focused view of their information infrastructures. Our work as a Foundation Partner reflects the combined strength of EMC and BMC Software in helping customers make their IT operations -- and their information -- more cost effective and more productive for the business." Mary Smars, Vice President and General Manager of the Enterprise Systems Management Business Unit at BMC Software, said, "Storage plays an increasingly critical role in enabling business services. As a BSM Foundation Partner, EMC strengthens BSM by integrating storage-related events, assets, and automation with other information technology management solutions. Through this integration, the impact to business or storage-related events or alerts is realized immediately, resulting in improved business performance, along with reduced cost and IT resource complexity." Today's announcement builds on the global sales, marketing and technology partnership announced by EMC and BMC Software this July, when EMC acquired rights to BMC Software's PATROL Storage Manager software, and BMC Software announced that it will resell re·sell tr.v. re·sold , re·sell·ing, re·sells 1. To sell again. 2. To sell (a product or service) to the public or to an end user, especially as an authorized dealer. EMC's ControlCenter family of products as its exclusive storage resource management offering. About EMC EMC Corporation (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : EMC) is the world leader in information storage systems, software, networks and services, providing automated au·to·mate v. au·to·mat·ed, au·to·mat·ing, au·to·mates v.tr. 1. To convert to automatic operation: automate a factory. 2. networked storage solutions to help organizations extract the maximum value from their information, at the lowest total cost, across every point in the information lifecycle. Information about EMC's products and services can be found at www.EMC.com. EMC is a registered trademark and ControlCenter is a trademark of EMC Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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