BMC Software Announces Immediate Support for Microsoft SQL Server 2005

HOUSTON - (Nov. 7, 2005) - BMC Software, Inc. [NYSE: BMC], a leading provider of enterprise management solutions, today expanded its commitment to Microsoft SQL Server 2005 by announcing support via BMC® SQL-BackTrack® for Microsoft SQL Server and BMC Performance Manager for Databases.  BMC SQL-BackTrack for Microsoft SQL Server further automates and simplifies the easy to use SQL Server backup and recovery, providing centralized enterprise-wide monitoring and administration of heterogeneous IT environments including business-relevant policy compliance management, reporting, and trending. 

An innovative end-to-end systems management solution, BMC Performance Manager provides the functionality required to diagnose complex problems while being simple to deploy, install and use, enabling companies to improve business performance, optimize system resources and reduce costs by shifting focus from maintenance and operations to more value-added tasks. 

DST Technologies, a BMC Software customer, provides sophisticated information processing, computer software services and business solutions to the financial services, communications, and healthcare industries.  “BMC SQL-BackTrack has given us significant improvement in our data availability,” said Don Smutny, senior software developer, DST Technologies.  “Its object level recovery feature was especially helpful because it simplifies and speeds our recoveries, thus ensuring that our data is always at our fingertips. To my knowledge, only BMC provides this recovery flexibility.”

“BMC Software worked closely with Microsoft to ensure immediate market availability of BMC support for Microsoft SQL Server 2005,” said Ilya Bukshteyn, director for product management for SQL Server at Microsoft Corp. “Our joint customers can optimize their SQL Server environment with automated and centralized management using BMC Software’s solutions. This is increasingly important as more and more organizations are running mission critical business services on the Microsoft platform.”

The BMC Performance Manager and SQL-BackTrack solutions increase availability of data and optimize SQL Server 2005 performance across different technologies thus supporting BMC Software’s Business Service Management (BSM) strategy which enables companies to move beyond traditional IT management to better optimize and manage their critical services from a business perspective.  By applying business relevance in automating data management, companies can ensure their most critical business systems issues are addressed first and service availability and continuity goals are achieved.

"Working directly with Microsoft, we are able to provide timely delivery of SQL-BackTrack and BMC Performance Manager to SQL Server customers as they migrate to the new SQL Server 2005 technology," said Israel Gat, vice president, Infrastructure Management, BMC Software. "The combination of our management solutions and SQL Server 2005 enable customers to meet their service availability and continuity goals and deliver high quality and innovative IT services that support their critical business goals."

Pricing and Availability
BMC SQL-BackTrack for Microsoft SQL Server is expected to be available globally on Nov.21st with pricing starting at $1295.00 per CPU.  BMC Performance Manager for Databases will be available by the end of the year with pricing starting at $975 per CPU.

About SQL-BackTrack for Microsoft SQL Server
SQL-BackTrack for Microsoft SQL Server by BMC Software is a database intelligent, high-performance backup and recovery product that simplifies and automates database administration tasks associated with backup and recovery across the enterprise. SQL-BackTrack shortens the time to recovery and maximizes IT resources, allowing IT staff to focus on the projects that drive competitive advantage for their business.

About BMC Performance Manager for Databases
BMC Performance Manager for Databases provides 24x7 problem detection and response for the distributed database environment.  By proactively monitoring configured database environments, BMC Performance Manager for Databases will detect when a parameter reaches a user-defined or default threshold and issue a warning or an alarm to notify DBAs of the problem.  By allowing users to set the alarm level at which they receive notification, users of BMC Performance Manager can easily define what aspects of the database environment might adversely affect business availability.   Via e-mail or pager, users can be notified that a warning or alarm has occurred.  BMC Performance Manager for Databases also provides the capability of defining recovery actions that will automatically respond to a warning or alarm by executing a pre-defined action against the database.  This lets users rely on BMC Performance Manager to handle errors — whether mission-critical or minor — without user intervention.

About BMC Software

BMC Software, Inc. [NYSE:BMC], is a leading provider of enterprise management solutions that empower companies to manage their IT infrastructure from a business perspective. Delivering Business Service Management, BMC Software solutions span enterprise systems, applications, databases and service management. Founded in 1980, BMC Software has offices worldwide and fiscal 2005 revenues of more than $1.46 billion. For more information about BMC Software, visit www.bmc.com.

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