BMC Software has added an ability to collect telemetry data from mainframes using open source OpenTelemetry software that can then be more easily shared with multiple observability tools and platforms such as Elastic, Splunk, Grafana, and Datadog. Company CTO Ram Chakravarti said the BMC AMI Ops platform now has an OpenTelemetry connector for mainframes running […]
BMC Expands Scope of Mainframe Management Portfolio
BMC this week updated its portfolio of mainframe tools as part of an effort to make mainframe platforms more accessible to IT operations teams and developers. At the core of these offerings is BMC Automated Mainframe Intelligence (AMI), which embeds machine learning algorithms in mainframe platforms to automate a wide range of processes. BMC AMI […]
BMC Software Closes Compuware Deal, Sets Course
BMC Software today announced it has formally completed its acquisition of Compuware as part of an expanded effort to modernize mainframe environments. Bill Miller, president of ZSolutions at BMC, said now that the deal has been closed the combined companies will be able to more tightly integrate Compuware’s Topaz application development and deployment platform with […]
BMC Extends DevOps Reach to Db2 Databases
BMC Software is extending the reach of its campaign to bring DevOps to the mainframe to the IBM Db2 databases that run on the venerable platform. John McKenny, senior vice president, ZSolutions Strategy and Innovation at BMC, said BMC AMI DevOps for Db2 makes it possible for DevOps teams to automate changes to the Db2 […]
DevOps Deeper Dive: BMC Software Bets on AIOps Transformation
As BMC tests the AIOps waters, the company seeks to find a balance in serving both the DevOps and ITIL populations It’s clear in the enterprise IT space that artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to play a significant role in IT operations, a phenomenon known as AIOps. Often with this level of IT disruption, new […]
BMC Software Advances Multi-Cloud Agenda
Long before anyone ever coined the term DevOps there were terms such as IT service management (ITSM) and IT infrastructure library (ITIL) that at one time epitomized the state of the art in help desk. Now, as IT organizations enter 2018, much of the focus in the new year will be integrating DevOps processes with […]
BMC to Infuse AI Across Software Portfolio
At its recent BMC Exchange event, BMC Software announced it will be infusing machine learning algorithms and other artificial intelligence (AI) technologies across its entire portfolio of IT operations software. The first instance of BMC software to make use of machine learning algorithms is the latest version of TrueSight AIOps platform, which ingests data from […]