Houston, April 22, 2008 – BMC Software (NYSE: BMC) today announced that Business Service Management (BSM) has been proven to deliver breakthrough improvements in business service efficiency, enabling customers to significantly streamline IT operations, reduce IT-related capital and operating expenses, and dramatically reduce energy consumption and environmental impact.
To help organizations achieve business service efficiency, BMC applies its BSM approach to assess each customer’s unique IT environment, holistically evaluates the cost of service delivery across both mainframe and distributed environments, and makes targeted, prioritized recommendations based on individual company needs.
By following this approach, IT organizations can obtain significant, tangible improvements in business service efficiency without the large capital investments involved in re-designing data centers or procuring large volumes of new power-efficient devices. BMC customer experience has shown that better utilization of existing IT infrastructure delivers gains that are approximately equivalent to those offered by newer hardware or improved data center design, but without the additional cost or environmental impact.
BMC’s IT organization has been implementing a strong, comprehensive business service efficiency program on an ongoing basis, consisting of both traditional and innovative ways to save energy, money and the environment.
“BMC uses BSM to drive greater business service efficiency and streamline its own IT operations,” said Greg Valdez, BMC Software’s chief information officer. “The results from this program are already being seen. We can more efficiently use our IT staff resources. By moving to virtualized environments and reducing the energy used to run our IT, BMC will be able to continue to use our current data center facilities for another two years, avoiding an estimated $10 million in capital costs.”
In addition, BMC is running an average of 17 virtualized environments on a single physical server. This alone has already eliminated nearly 2,000 servers and BMC expects to consolidate an additional 500 physical servers over the next year. This initial reduction of 2,000 servers enables BMC to cut annual power consumption by nearly 12.5 million kilowatt hours and eliminate more than 5,300 metric tons of CO2 emissions.
According to Gartner, “Operating in a low-carbon economy is not about doing the same things but using less energy; it's about doing things differently. The IT industry and IT organizations have focused almost exclusively on increasing the energy efficiency of IT equipment to make IT a better global citizen. Worthy though this effort is, it misses the big opportunity: how IT can be used to improve the environmental performance of the enterprise, its supply chain, and its products and services.”¹
