BMC Software, a veteran impartial enterprise IT services maker that way back carved out its personal loyal clientele within the face of bigger opponents, has had a busy information week.
The Houston-based firm revealed March 2 that can purchase Compuware, as soon as the biggest tech firm in Michigan and since 1973 a supplier of mainframe utility growth, supply and assist options. The acquisition is anticipated to be accomplished within the subsequent few months; phrases of the transaction weren’t divulged.
BMC, which like Compuware (Thoma Bravo) is owned by a personal fairness agency (KKR), additionally introduced main additions and enhancements to its Helix programs operations platform, which it describes as “the industry’s first and only intelligence-enriched, integrated service and operations platform.” Details are additional down on this story.
Addition of Compuware Improves Mainframe Mojo
BMC’s experience in mainframe know-how is obvious within the Automated Mainframe Intelligence (AMI) platform, in addition to further product areas. The firm stated that the acquisition “will build upon these technologies to deliver new solutions to serve enterprise organizations worldwide.”
Additionally, as information storage turns into extra important to enterprise DevOps methods, the synergies between these two organizations will develop into extra integral to buyer success, BMC stated.
Compuware has been an business chief in mainstreaming the mainframe for agile and DevOps builders, and as extra organizations undertake new-generation mainframe options, the mixed innovation that each firms convey will assist speed up profitable digital transformation for patrons, BMC stated.
In a media advisory, Compuware CEO Chris O’Malley praised the pending sale to BMC. “Without a doubt, a combined BMC and Compuware is the best, brightest and most collaborative (partnership) for a new generation of mainframe stewards,” O’Malley stated.
New characteristic lineup for BMC Helix
The new v20.02 model of BMC Helix, introduced March 2, consists of the next options, amongst others:
BMC Helix Monitor
Monitor is the subsequent evolution in BMC’s monitoring and occasion administration options, combining confirmed ITOM capabilities with a contemporary, cloud-native structure to make sure ease of use, excessive efficiency and time to worth:
- SaaS resolution for monitoring and occasion administration throughout on-prem, multi-cloud, and container environments with a customizable consumer expertise.
- Containerized microservices structure offers elastic scalability and enterprise-grade excessive availability and efficiency.
- High-performance ITOM information lake for big scale operational information analytics supported by a Cassandra and Elasticsearch backend.
BMC Helix Discovery
Enhancements to visibility into {hardware}, software program, and repair dependencies throughout environments embody:
- Discover z/OS Mainframe dependencies.
- Cisco ACI software program outlined community infrastructure mannequin added to Technology Knowledge…
