BMC Bulks Up DBMS Portfolio With GridApp Acquisition: Page 2 of 2

GridApp's solution is already integrated with BMC BladeLogic Server Automation. BMC says its automation capabilities extend the BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management solution, enabling more IT staff to request and manage database resources in cloud environments. 

That automation is essential because more than 40 percent of all mission-critical IT service outages are due to people and process errors and failures, according to Gartner research. A significant number of these outages are due to a lack of coordination among change management, release management and configuration management.

What makes the GridApp approach different is that it uses model-based automation, as opposed to scripting, and works with most relational databases, including Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase, DB2, MySQL and PostgreSQL. This summer the company updated its Clarity application, which makes it easier for organizations to perform database automated functions such as applying patches.

By the end of the first quarter of 2011, BMC expects to have productized the integration between BladeLogic and GridApp that already exists. The second phase, integrating the reporting platform and tying GridApp into the cloud, should be complete in the second quarter. And from a go-to-market perspective, BMC says that GridApp's sales organization will become an overlay of its sales group.