PO2739

Helping the Bottom Line - One Company's Virtualization Initiative Makes a Major Impact

BMC Software had been using a variety of virtualization technologies to help manage its infrastructure for years. Rising costs of doing business, increased focus on green-IT, industry adoption of the technologies, tool maturity and a pursuit of efficiency were some of the reasons BMC launched an internal virtualization initiative in 2007. Entering into an Enterprise License Agreement (ELA) with VMWare, BMC launched a focused effort to move the bulk of its software development and operational infrastructure from physical servers to virtualized environments. Virtualization coupled with integrated business service management tools have resulted in bottom line savings in the millions and the productivity increases are orders of great magnitude.

Technical Overview Session

Networking; Storage / Backup; VMware Infrastructure; Virtualization Platform / Hypervisor

1 Hour

Mark Bennett( BMCSoftware, Inc. ), Mahendra Durai( BMC Software, Inc. )

Sr. Director for BMC's IT Operations team.

Mark Bennett is a 19 year IT veteran who has worked a majority of that time in support of research and development teams, primarily in the area of software development. Mark previously worked as a Technical Analyst for global consultant firm and has managed IT facilities & teams worldwide.