Business service management firm BMC Software is
buyingdatacentre automationcompanyBladeLogicfor £400m.
"Organisations around the world will spend more than £70bn this
year running datacentres," said Bob Beauchamp, BMC CEO. "Automation
is the only way IT can bring this spending under control and still
meet the reliability and time-to-market requirements of their
businesses," he said.
The acquisition will combine BMC's
business service management platform with BladeLogic's
datacentre automation business.
BMC said that customers of the combined system could expect a
90% improvement in IT operational efficiency within 90 days of
deployment, as well as addressing the challenges of compliance,
virtualisation and availability.