Stephen Watts
Why Multi-Cloud Management Solutions Are Critical to Digital Transformation
BY Stephen WattsStephen Watts

To stay competitive in today’s ever-changing business environment, a company’s IT infrastructure must be agile enough to adapt to changing demands placed on it by both the business and its employees. Most businesses turn to the cloud to provide flexibility, since cloud computing enables businesses to scale up or down as needed, deliver services more quickly, and requires fewer resources to manage. In many cases, businesses are using more than one cloud service provider—such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and the Google Cloud Platform—to enable these benefits. Enter multi-cloud, which is absolutely essential to an effective digital transformation strategy. In this blog, we’ll evaluate what the six key multi-cloud management challenges are and present our industry-leading … [Read More]

The 3 Core Components of BMC Helix, Part 3: Containers
BY Vidhya SrinivasanVidhya Srinivasan

In this blog series, we’ve covered the core components of the new BMC Helix Cognitive Service Management solution. We call them the 3 Cs: Cognitive, Cloud, and our topic for today, Containers. Containers enable greater freedom and flexibility in today’s … [Read More...]

Security Threats in the Multi-Cloud
BY Laura ShiffLaura Shiff

Today, a majority of organizations are not only actively moving most of their workloads to the cloud, but many of them are also using a multi-cloud model. By leveraging one provider for a specific functionality and another for its cost or location, companies … [Read More...]

Why Application Monitoring Is Critical to Multi-Cloud Success
BY Stephen WattsStephen Watts

In today’s multi-cloud world, organizations can’t afford to allow IT problems to disrupt or degrade service, so they must be able to proactively identify potential points of failure, address problems quickly when they do arise, and align effort with business … [Read More...]

The 3 Core Components of BMC Helix, Part 2: Everything-as-a-Service and Operating in the Multi-Cloud
BY Vidhya SrinivasanVidhya Srinivasan

BMC Helix, our new end-to-end Cognitive Service Management offering, delivers the future of service management with three core components: Cognitive, Cloud, and Containers. We covered the first “C”, Cognitive, in our initial blog post of this series. BMC Helix … [Read More...]

Cloud Cost Optimization Strategies and Tools: How to Reduce Your Cloud Costs
BY Robin ReddickRobin Reddick

Although cloud computing represents perhaps the biggest change to IT in recent history, it’s not as simple as it sounds. Despite a seemingly constant call to “move to the cloud,” organizations must navigate a wide variety of service offerings and deployment … [Read More...]

The 3 Core Components of BMC Helix, Part 1: Cognitive Capabilities
BY Vidhya SrinivasanVidhya Srinivasan

We built BMC Helix, our new, cloud-based Cognitive Service Management solution, to address today’s most pressing business requirement: how to rethink tools and processes to enable digital transformation. 60% of CIOs and other executives say that they’re behind … [Read More...]

Azure Compliance: 3 Keys for Getting Started
BY Stephen WattsStephen Watts

As enterprise businesses accelerate innovation in the cloud, the concepts of threat detection, data privacy and compliance audits have never been more important. Indeed, violations can lead to costly security breaches, regulatory actions and loss of brand … [Read More...]

What Are Managed File Transfers? MFT Explained
BY Robby DickRobby Dick

Do you know that typical enterprises transfer thousands of files every single day? It’s no secret that managed file transfers are essential to business operations and the systems that depend upon them. In fact, BMC research indicates file transfers … [Read More...]

Top 5 Machine Learning Algorithms for Beginners
BY Chrissy KiddChrissy Kidd

Machine learning is a major component in the race towards artificial intelligence. Whether you’re seeking true artificial intelligence or simply trying to gain insight from all the data you’ve been collecting, machine learning is a major step forward. But … [Read More...]

Forrester Total Economic Impact Study of BMC Helix Remedy for Customers
BY Vidhya SrinivasanVidhya Srinivasan

According to a recent Forrester study, 3 trends – Cloud migration, containerization and evolution of Service Management – will help determine how well IT can meet the needs of the business and customers. By successfully addressing these trends, IT … [Read More...]