— Datasheet PRODUCT DESCRIPTION BMC BladeLogic Database Automation is a multi-platform database automation solution that lets database administrators deploy, patch, upgrade and maintain databases in 1/10th the time. With less time needed to keep the lights on, administrators get much more bandwidth to support new apps role outs. BUSINESS CHALLENGE In today’s digital economy, innovative applications depend on fast-performing databases. Skilled database administrators spend a majority of their time ensuring the existing environments are well maintained, compliant, and secure. Security threats seek vulnerabilities at the database level, putting more pressure on IT to keep current on patches and compliance policies, and giving them little time to optimize database configurations and queries, or push out new features for application releases. Add in the complexity of multivendor database environments, clustered configurations, or variations in version levels, and it’s no wonder there’s no time for innovation. How can IT operations ensure rapid and reliable change across the most demanding and heterogeneous database environments? BMC SOLUTION BMC BladeLogic Database Automation improves efficiency, lowers costs, and reduces risk by automating routine administrative tasks and compliance processes. IT operations can accelerate deployment and patching, reduce security vulnerabilities, enforce compliance, and achieve greater productivity by streamlining the database management process. Now, the businesses can stop worrying about the state of their databases, and focus on driving growth. Drive dramatic improvements in speed, cost, and risk for your multi-vendor database environment BMC BladeLogic Database Automation KEY FEATURES Manage multivendor databases with ease. • It’s simple – Create a model-based approach and simplify the most complex database environments • It’s critical – Leverage the compliance engine to stay continuously compliant and secured • It’s reliable – Deploy patches and upgrades across database clusters without increasing downtime • It’s fast – Enable full-stack layered provisioning for rapid, automated resource allocation KEY BENEFITS • Cut database provisioning time up to 95% including clusters and multi-version database support • Help DBAs thrive by reducing manual tasks for highly qualified resources by 85% • Expand the ratio of administrators to database without impacting productivity or increasing operational costs • Apply patches in 1/10th the time with a compliance engine that ensures consistent governance for database • Scale across your physical and cloud- based application environments • Reduce downtime and improve quality of service by applying patches in a rolling fashion Focus database administrators on the most important jobs, pending actions, and compliance standards with full reports to measure success – all in one solution.
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PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
BMC BladeLogic Database Automation is a multi-platform database automation solution that lets database administrators deploy, patch, upgrade and maintain databases in 1/10th the time. With less time needed to keep the lights on, administrators get much more bandwidth to support new apps role outs.
BUSINESS CHALLENGE
In today’s digital economy, innovative applications depend on fast-performing databases. Skilled database administrators spend a majority of their time ensuring the existing environments are well maintained, compliant, and secure. Security threats seek vulnerabilities at the database level, putting more pressure on IT to keep current on patches and compliance policies, and giving them little time to optimize database configurations and queries, or push out new features for application releases. Add in the complexity of multivendor database environments, clustered configurations, or variations in version levels, and it’s no wonder there’s no time for innovation. How can IT operations ensure rapid and reliable change across the most demanding and heterogeneous database environments?
BMC SOLUTION
BMC BladeLogic Database Automation improves efficiency, lowers costs, and reduces risk by automating routine administrative tasks and compliance processes. IT operations can accelerate deployment and patching, reduce security vulnerabilities, enforce compliance, and achieve greater productivity by streamlining the database management process. Now, the businesses can stop worrying about the state of their databases, and focus on driving growth.
Drive dramatic improvements in speed, cost, and risk for your multi-vendor database environment
BMC BladeLogic Database Automation
KEY FEATURESManage multivendor databases with ease.
• It’s simple – Create a model-based approach and simplify the most complex database environments
• It’s critical – Leverage the compliance engine to stay continuously compliant and secured
• It’s reliable – Deploy patches and upgrades across database clusters without increasing downtime
• It’s fast – Enable full-stack layered provisioning for rapid, automated resource allocation
KEY BENEFITS• Cut database provisioning time up to 95%
including clusters and multi-version database support
• Help DBAs thrive by reducing manual tasks for highly qualified resources by 85%
• Expand the ratio of administrators to database without impacting productivity or increasing operational costs
• Apply patches in 1/10th the time with a compliance engine that ensures consistent governance for database
• Scale across your physical and cloud-based application environments
• Reduce downtime and improve quality of service by applying patches in a rolling fashion
Focus database administrators on the most important jobs, pending actions, and compliance standards with full reports to measure success – all in one solution.
BMC delivers software solutions that help IT transform digital enterprises for the ultimate competitive business advantage. We have worked with thousands of leading companies to create and deliver powerful IT management services. From mainframe to cloud to mobile, we pair high-speed digital innovation with robust IT industrialization—allowing our customers to provide amazing user experiences with optimized IT performance, cost, compliance, and productivity. We believe that technology is the heart of every business, and that IT drives business to the digital age.
BMC delivers software solutions that help IT transform digital enterprises for the ultimate competitive business advantage. From mainframe to cloud to mobile, we pair high-speed digital innovation with robust IT industrialization—allowing our customers to provide amazing user experiences with optimized IT performance, cost, compliance, and productivity. We believe :
• Technology is the heart of every business • IT drives business to the digital age
BMC – Bring IT to Life
PRODUCT DETAILS
Model based database automation: Use out-of-the-box templates to provision, configure, deploy and patch databases
Pre-flight Checks: Automate validation to determine if an environment is configured correctly for database provisioning
Compliance Engine: Ensure continuous compliance using industry standards, vendor security patches, and remediation
Environment-aware Management: Discover and capture complex database configurations and interdependencies
Reporting: Improve decision support across your heterogeneous environment by type, target, domain, rule, or standard
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Broad Integration: Interact with other products in the BMC BladeLogic Automation Suite, as well as with the BMC Remedy IT Service Management Suite for operator-initiated change automation
Role-based Operations: Provide users access control for provisioning, patching, and granular rollback in support of separation of duties
FOR MORE INFORMATION
To learn more about BMC BladeLogic Database Automation, please visit bmc.com/it-solutions/bladelogic-database-automation.html
Apply the compliance engine to all flavors of your databases to run industry standard compliance policies, associate remediation operations to specific rules, and exclude environments that are not relevant.
BMC BladeLogic Server Automation is the industry-leading solution for automated management, control, and enforcement of server configuration changes in the data center and in the cloud.
BUSINESS CHALLENGE
All mission critical applications depend on healthy data center servers to keep the business ahead of the competition. If IT takes too long to provision, configure, or update servers, then the business is at risk from security vulnerabilities, of services deployed on non-regulated shadow IT, or of facing costly fines for non-compliance. With the complexity of a heterogeneous, virtual, and cloud server environment, IT staff struggle just to keep the lights on. Manual efforts are labor-intensive, error-prone, and simply not scalable. Expensive, highly-skilled administrators waste time on homegrown, script-based approaches with limited, temporary results.
BMC SOLUTION
BMC BladeLogic Server Automation provides a policy-based approach for IT administrators to manage their data centers with greater speed, quality, and consistency. Broad support for all major operating systems on physical servers and leading virtualization and cloud platforms lets IT install and configure server changes with ease. Rich out-of-the-box content helps IT automate continuous compliance checks and remediation for regulatory requirements such as PCI-DSS or security standards like DISA. Now IT staff can build, configure, and enforce compliance faster and more reliably. With a simplified web portal, the IT operations team can increase the server to admin ratio, gain productivity, complete audits swiftly, and quickly respond to increasing business demands.
Maintain server compliance and gain administration efficiency 50% faster
BMC BladeLogic Server Automation
KEY FEATURESBMC BladeLogic Server Automation helps sysadmins provision, configure, patch, and maintain physical, virtual, and cloud servers.
• Compliance and risk mitigation – Full cycle of system discovery, monitoring, remediation, and integrated change control, providing continuous compliance with out-of-the-box integration with BMC Remedy ITSM suite
• Full lifecycle management – Focal point of control for the entire server lifecycle, simplifying compliance, provisioning, configuration, patching, and reporting
• Advanced built-in security – Granularrole-based access control system that reduces the risk of misconfiguration and improves systems stability
KEY BENEFITS• Speed – Maintain compliance twice as
fast with pre-configured compliance policies for detection and enforcement
• Risk – Lower mean time to repair and increase IT efficiency by 87% with an intelligent, closed-loop for automated remediation
• Cost – Slash provisioning time from days to hours with automated provisioning
Dashboards help server administrators instantly assess the health of their server environment.
BMC delivers software solutions that help IT transform digital enterprises for the ultimate competitive business advantage. We have worked with thousands of leading companies to create and deliver powerful IT management services. From mainframe to cloud to mobile, we pair high-speed digital innovation with robust IT industrialization—allowing our customers to provide amazing user experiences with optimized IT performance, cost, compliance, and productivity. We believe that technology is the heart of every business, and that IT drives business to the digital age.
BMC delivers software solutions that help IT transform digital enterprises for the ultimate competitive business advantage. From mainframe to cloud to mobile, we pair high-speed digital innovation with robust IT industrialization—allowing our customers to provide amazing user experiences with optimized IT performance, cost, compliance, and productivity. We believe :
• Technology is the heart of every business • IT drives business to the digital age
BMC – Bring IT to Life
Broad Support: Operating systems such as Windows®, Linux®, UNIX® and virtualization such as VMware®, Microsoft®, Red Hat®, Citrix®, IBM®, and Oracle®. Integration to BMC solutions for application discovery, full-stack configuration, and change management.
Reporting: Cut the time required to assess the impact of change, or complete an audit with views for compliance, inventory, provisioning, patching, and deployment, including automation value dashboards.
PRODUCT DETAILS
Compliance: Simplify governance with role-based access control, pre-configured policies for CIS, DISA, HIPAA, PCI, SOX, NIST, and SCAP, integrated documentation, and remediation through repair, rollback, or configuration updates
Provisioning: Provision server configurations based on a broad set of supported approaches such as unattended installs and image-based, script-based, or template-based provisioning for physical, virtual, and cloud-based data centers
Configuration: Enable administrators to eliminate complexity by consistently managing change and configuration activities across a broad range of server environments with one tool
Patching: Keep your infrastructure in peak condition by applying patches with ease, reducing downtime, and preventing potential security breaches.
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FOR MORE INFORMATION
To learn more about BMC BladeLogic Server Automation, please visit bmc.com/bsa
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BMC Middleware Automation Quickly deploy applications and expertly manage their configurations — without scripting — for faster service delivery and fewer application outages.
DATASHEET
Figure 2. Visualize Java EE server configurations
Key Benefits
» Dramatically reduce application
release cycles from weeks to hours
» Complete deployment and
configuration management —
without scripts — for Java EE™ and
IBM® WebSphere® Portal
applications
» Eliminate errors with consistent
deployments across multiple
environments — physical, virtual, or
cloud
» Enable continuous integration and
continuous deployment initiatives
» Greatly reduce dependence on
experts to handle repetitive and
mundane tasks
» Simplify troubleshooting of
configuration-related problems
» Reduce installation and
configuration risk by eliminating
manual processes
» Improve productivity by eliminating
deployment script maintenance and
release process documentation
Business challenge Cloud computing, web-based applications, and Agile development create unprecedented service
delivery challenges for development and IT operations. As organizations develop and deploy
Java™ Enterprise Edition (Java EE) applications more and more quickly, they struggle with the
increasingly complex and time-consuming task of troubleshooting and configuring web
application server environments. The process is typically cumbersome, error prone, and
inefficient, leading to unacceptably long release cycles and frequent service outages.
The BMC solution BMC Middleware Automation deploys, configures, and troubleshoots Java EE applications
quickly, efficiently, and safely. It is a vital tool for anyone who needs to ensure consistency of
deployment environments or quickly diagnose problems in application server configurations.
The solution automates Java EE server configuration management to dramatically accelerate
application release cycles and virtually eliminate the costly errors that result from manual or
scripted approaches. It compresses development, test, and release iterations to do what Agile
development, continuous integration, and cloud
computing are intended to do: deliver new
business services faster, at less cost, and with
greater reliability.
Model-based configuration management Using a data-modeling approach, BMC
Middleware Automation interrogates any
supported web application server to create a
configuration snapshot — an abstract model of
all unique settings and their interdependencies.
You can compare snapshots to detect
configuration drift over time or to quickly identify
inconsistencies between servers that can affect performance. This is a ―must have‖ diagnostic
capability for anyone responsible for service delivery with Java EE applications. BMC
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BMC Network Automation BMC Network Automation is the industry-leading solution for automated management, control, and enforcement of network configuration changes in the data center. As part of the BMC BladeLogic Automation Suite, it provides a cross-platform solution for managing both physical and virtual assets — in the traditional data center and in the cloud.
DATASHEET
Key Benefits » Reduce operational costs by
automating manual and error-prone activities
» Reduce service downtime through policy-based configuration management
» Streamline service provisioning by consolidating and centralizing provisioning activities across all platforms
» Manage physical and virtual network resources in traditional and cloud environments from a single platform
» Improve operational productivity by increasing network device-to-admin ratio and securely sharing workload
» Consistently enforce compliance with regulatory, security, and operational compliance policies
» Improve security by reducing the time to remediate known vulnerabilities
» Manage change activity by reporting on the “who, what, when, and where” of change — regardless of where it is initiated
» Automate audit cycles with built-in compliance reports
» Assess the impact of change on critical business services
Business Challenge IT faces numerous challenges, such as growing complexity, cost-reduction mandates, compliance
regulations, and pressure to be more responsive to business needs. Many organizations struggle to meet
these challenges, and recognize that current approaches are simply not going to work. Manual operations
tend to be reactive, labor-intensive, error-prone, and heavily reliant on skilled individuals. Even organizations
that have invested in point solutions or homegrown, script-based approaches are recognizing their limits,
and are looking for a comprehensive automation solution built on a single, unified platform.
The BMC Solution BMC Network Automation enables IT to implement a policy-based automation solution for managing the
data center, while also ensuring highest uptime for critical business services. It provides a single platform for
managing physical and virtual network devices — across all major platforms. Supported by a robust security
model, it dramatically reduces operational costs, improves operational quality, and enables operational
compliance by addressing three main areas: Configuration, Provisioning, and Compliance.
Configuration Configuration management tasks often make up the bulk of data center activities, including patching,
configuring, updating, and reporting on network devices. By shielding users from underlying complexity,
BMC Network Automation enables consistency in change and configuration management activities. At the
same time, subject to security constraints, it exposes sufficient detail about network devices under
management to ensure effective and accurate administrative activities.
Features
» Real-time and historical visibility into configuration and change attributes
» Pre-built templates and jobs that simplify configuration definition and accelerate network changes
» SmartMerge Technology that automatically creates scripts
Provisioning With support for all leading operating systems and virtualization platforms, BMC Network Automation
simplifies and expedites the configuration of network devices in multi-tiered networks, including VLANs and
associated services for fire-walling, load-balancing, and WAN acceleration. It also enables IT to change
network device configurations easily and deploy Access Control List (ACL) changes that support adds,
moves, and changes of other service resources, such as servers, without service disruptions.
Features
» SmartMerge Technology that deploys changes without rebooting network devices
» Smart ACL Management that deploys access control lists (ACLs) to network devices without exposing
the network to potential security vulnerabilities
» Smart Syntax Scanning that automatically verifies command syntax with device before execution
Pre-built Rules » Center for Internet Security
(CIS)
» Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA)
» Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
» Payment Card Industry (PCI)
» Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act
Compliance Most IT organizations are required to maintain network device configurations in compliance with policy,
whether regulatory (SOX, PCI, or HIPAA), security (NIST, DISA, or CIS), or operational. BMC Network
Automation helps IT achieve and maintain compliance by defining and applying configuration policies.
When a network configuration deviates from policy, the solution generates remediation instructions and
creates jobs to automatically or manually change the network device to the trusted configuration.
Features
» Automated auditing and drift detection with automatic remediation and rollback
» Pre-configured compliance policies for regulatory and security standards
» Operating system patch and upgrade management
Virtualization and Cloud Computing BMC’s industry-leading automation platform seamlessly enables enterprise-class provisioning and
configuration across physical, virtual, and cloud environments. It provides the core automation and
compliance functionality for the BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management platform, including provisioning full-
stack, multi-tier cloud services, security and patch compliance, and configuration automation.
Features
» Provision, configure, and manage heterogeneous cloud services in a single platform
» Deploy networks for full-stack, multi-tier applications in virtual and cloud environments
» Securely incorporate virtual and cloud services into enterprise and multi-tenant networks
Reporting Through add-on functionality provided by BMC BladeLogic Decision Support for Network Automation, BMC
helps you understand how IT change impacts data center operations, performance, and quality — and how
these changes affect underlying business services. You gain immediate insight into wide-scale change
occurring across network infrastructure, coupled with the ability to drill-down to a granular level, helping you
make informed business decisions and reducing the negative impact of failed changes.
Features
» Out-of-the-box, ad-hoc, and consolidated reports for compliance, inventory, provisioning, patch, and
deployment
» Complex reporting capabilities, such as pivot tables, trending, and data correlation
» Role-based access control
Key Integrations BMC Network Automation integrates with the BMC Atrium CMDB and the BMC Remedy IT Service
Management (ITSM) Suite. Bi-directional integration with the BMC Atrium CMDB is built-in, allowing
administrators to make service-aware operational decisions, thus improving effectiveness. BMC Atrium
Orchestrator, part of the BMC BladeLogic Automation Suite, provides integration with the BMC Remedy
ITSM Suite to enable closed-loop compliance by linking change management with change execution.
Alignment with Best Practices BMC Network Automation integrates and automates change, release, and configuration management
processes across the entire change lifecycle, eliminating time-consuming and error-prone manual handoffs
across groups. In addition, it automatically closes the loop on all changes, keeping change management
staff apprised of the status of changes and indicating the success or failure of change implementations.
For More Information To learn more on BMC Network Automation, please visit www.bmc.com.
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