Customer Case Study: BMC Software Helps Virgin Mobile Meet I.T. Compliance Challenge

LONDON, December 16, 2008 – BMC Software (NYSE: BMC) today announced the publication of an important customer case study detailing successful implementation of BMC BladeLogic Service Automation by telecommunications leader Virgin Mobile. 

In the highly competitive UK mobile market, Virgin Mobile is without doubt a success story. In only five short years since its inception, with a customer base today of more than five million, the company has grown to become the UK’s largest mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) and the country’s fifth largest mobile operator.

“Given Virgin Mobile’s complex data center environment, they sought sophisticated and scalable Data Center Automation solutions to address their application release management and configuration change control management requirements,” said Dev Ittycheria, president of BMC’s Enterprise Service Management business unit.  “After a rigorous benchmarking exercise with multiple suppliers, Virgin Mobile chose BMC’s BladeLogic due to the solution’s compelling benchmark results.”

Read more at http://documents.bmc.com/products/documents/15/92/91592/91592.pdf

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