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Customers Reduce Database Downtime From Hours to Minutes with New Solution from BMC Software Fast Path Online Restructure/EP reduces critical database downtime and helps customers avoid costly outages that can lead to corporate risk and financial loss HOUSTON, June 29, 2010 – For companies that need continuous availability of critical business applications, taking databases offline for extended periods to perform required maintenance isn’t just costly, it’s unacceptable.
To address this need, BMC Software (NASDAQ: BMC) today announced a new mainframe product for IBM (NYSE: IBM) IMS, the leading transactional and hierarchical database management system for the IBM® System z® mainframe. The BMC Fast Path Online Restructure/EP solution -- which includes patent-pending technology -- dramatically reduces downtime to improve availability of critical IMS Fast Path applications.
Changing business needs often create new data requirements that lead to database structure changes. The BMC Fast Path Online Restructure/EP software enables IMS Fast Path databases to be restructured in minutes rather than hours, allowing business needs to be met. Databases remain online during the majority of the restructure process, increasing application availability and minimizing the risk of financial losses associated with outages. This is particularly useful for financial institutions and other organizations that process thousands of transactions per second and cannot afford to have lengthy processing outages.
BMC has been providing innovative IMS solutions since 1982 and has hundreds of IMS customers worldwide including some of the largest financial and IT service providers in the industry.
“BMC Fast Path Online Restructure/EP, one of the first of its kind, is a critical element for companies looking to increase their availability and bottom line revenue. For large companies, such as financial institutions and insurance providers, that require outages to update their databases as a result of mergers, acquisitions and other business requirements, this solution provides critically needed support to avoid financial losses and penalties,” said Richard Ptak, managing partner, Ptak, Noel & Associates LLC. “By reducing the time of these outages from hours to minutes and increasing overall business availability, we believe BMC is leading the way in helping companies further reduce costs and risks associated with database outages, while increasing productivity and revenue -- a critical success factor in today’s business environment.”
“BMC is committed to delivering solutions that improve availability and reduce costs for our customers,” said Bill Miller, senior vice president and president of Mainframe Service Management at BMC. “We understand that IT organizations must maintain and often increase their availability which correlates directly to superior service delivery and increased business revenue. BMC Fast Path Online Restructure/EP is important to our Business Service Management strategy, which provides our customers with the services they need to succeed, when they need them.”
To view a webinar on the BMC Fast Path Online Restructure/EP solution, go to the following link.
For more information on BMC’s IMS solutions, go to www.bmc.com/ims.
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