Tag Archives: BMC

May 10, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Location Based Services Not Just for Consumers – Location as an IT Service Desk Enabler

By Ben Kepes

At Interop this week I sat in a keynote where a Cisco executive explained how their location based technologies are enabling the MGM Grand resort in Las Vegas to have deeply contextualized and personalized interactions with guests in the resort. That got me thinking about location within an enterprise and,

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May 7, 2013 Posted in Business 8 Comments

Who Said Dell is Dead? Enstratius Acquisition and Boomi API Management Play Suggest Reinvention is in Progress

By Ben Kepes

Yesterday Jo Maitland, GigaOm Pro Analyst, published a pretty damning post in which she characterized both Dell and BMC as, essentially, the living dead. Her view was that the move to privatize the companies (a done deal for BMC, in progress for Dell) is a last-gasp effort to resuscitate a

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March 21, 2013 Posted in Business 5 Comments

EMC, VMware and Pivotal Initiative–A Confusing Triumvirate

By Ben Kepes

I wanted to wait a few weeks before commenting on the worst kept secret in enterprise IT, the fact that VMware and EMC are creating a new entity, Pivotal, that is made up of the cloudy assets from both companies. After spending time ruminating on the new setup, I’m still

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November 1, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

BMC Launches MyIT – Bridging the IT/Business Divide

By Ben Kepes

Cross posted from the BMC blog. I spend most of my time talking to technology vendors, IT folks and business people all in an effort to drive organizational benefits through the use of technology. Over years of doing this, I’ve noticed a stark divide that exists within an organization between

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August 21, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Appcara Delivers Cloud Infra and App Management for AWS Based Clouds

By Ben Kepes

Appcara is an unfortunately named (considering the fact that Cloud Foundry creator, and Clouderati pin up boy Derek Collison’s new gig is called Apcera) company in the business of providing automation for cloud deployments. They use a modeling based approach towards designing and deploying cloud infrastructure. Appcara today announced an

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August 9, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

BMC Acquires VaraLogix, Releases Version 3.0 of CLM

By Ben Kepes

BMC software the IT service management vendor that is arguably best known for producing the Remedy ITSM product, also has an interest in providing a broad set of tools for the management of enterprise’s IT assets – it’s cloud life management (CLM) and cloud operations management (COM) toolsets are platforms

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July 17, 2012 Posted in Business 5 Comments

VMware Rumors Circulate–MyPOV on What the New CEO Should Do

By Ben Kepes

With the tech press going into a tailspin yesterday over long-time Googler Marissa Mayaer being appointed as Yahoo! CEO, an equally exciting piece of news and separate but connected rumor was largely ignored. GigaOM reported that VMware is likely planning to spin off some of its assets into a separate

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July 2, 2012 Posted in Business 4 Comments

VMware Acquires DynamicOps–Quick Analysis

By Ben Kepes

News this morning that VMware has acquired DynamicOps for a reported $100-$150M price tag. DynamicOps is a provider of IT management services that (and this is the important bit) span heterogeneous environments. It comes the same day Dell finally announces the fraught with stress acquisition of Quest and marks a

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April 19, 2012 Posted in Business 3 Comments

More on the IT Business Boiling Point

By Ben Kepes

Over the last few days I’ve been talking to people about the tension that exists between “traditional” and “next generation” software platforms. The discussions had their genesis in a post I wrote specifically looking at NetSuite and Oracle, but relate to a host of other vendors – Microsoft contrasted with

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April 2, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Cloud Adoption, And The IT/Business Tension

By Ben Kepes

CloudU Notebooks is a weekly blog series that explores topics from the CloudU certificate program in bite sized chunks, written by me, Ben Kepes, curator of CloudU. How-to’s, interviews with industry giants, and the occasional opinion piece are what you can expect to find. If that’s your cup of tea,

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Ben Kepes is a technology evangelist, an investor, a commentator and a business adviser. Ben covers the convergence of technology, mobile, ubiquity and agility, all enabled by the Cloud. His areas of interest extend to enterprise software, software integration, financial/accounting software, platforms and infrastructure as well as articulating technology simply for everyday users.

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