While technology grows faster, simpler, less costly, a majority of companies still struggle with IT operations. Systems engineers spend too much time fighting fires or nursing their infrastructures. The average tenure of systems engineers continues to shorten, while software developers grow frustrated and leave without hesitation to greener pastures. The impacts include projects experiencing repeated delays. What are the most forward-looking enterprises doing about it? By peering into a leading edge, high-growth market, light gets shed on how even blue chip companies leverage partners to springboard into newer architectures and processes.
Our Managing Director, Vinnie Lima, spent a few minutes talking to BMC Software’s Allison Cramer to discuss the Best Practices for creating a cloud migration strategy. Topics such as Cloud First vs. Cloud Smart, Cost, Security, and Optimization are discussed from real-world experience with the U.S. Department of Agriculture AgCloud initiative.
BMC has shifted releases of updates to CLM (Cloud Lifecycle Management) to be more modular and easier to apply on existing environments. They roll-up previous updates and features, and is now called “Feature Pack”. The latest of their release, Feature Pack 4, offers a slew of new capabilities including infinite possibilities with template based provisioned…
Dominic Wellington (Twitter @dwellington) had a great post at the BMC communities recently articulating the age-old discussion of cloud platforms solving a business problem, versus an IT geek spinnin’ VM Templates attempting to deliver a cloud solution. I welcome you to read his great summation about how you should reverse-think your way about solving your cloud project woes,…
If you are just getting off the high from the AWS re:Invent conference this past year, you probably still remember BMC Software‘s pitch for their Cloud Lifecycle Management solution. This was touted as a Cloud Broker of all clouds, and specifically, facilitating and delivering compliancy and “Trust” to Amazon’s Web Service. The offering is…
We are now open for business (training that is)! Our 20+ seat state of the art educational services facility in Columbia Maryland is now open. Come join us for our upcoming training courses for FY13. It contains two individual or combined high definition projectors, a PA system with wireless microphone, HDMI and VGA inputs, IdeaPainton all…
We’ll be covering the AWS re:Invent conference in sunny Las Vegas this week! Keep posted on updates and cool content from AWS and partners, as well as technologies. The energy behind this event is amazing! If you see us – say hi!!
Monday December 17, 2012 – Friday December 21, 2012 | Register Description: BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management: Administration Boot Camp extends on the concepts introduced in BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management: Foundation. Geared toward “cloud” administrators, students will learn the planning strategies, key concepts, configuration steps, and best practices when implementing BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management. Through a…
The following is a high level summary of the steps necessary for upgrading/patching CLM 3.0 to Patch 2 plus necessary hot fixes. A valid Support ID is required to access these files and patches. Place the Patch 2 software on the Enterprise AR and Platform Manager servers. Execute the install planner as follows: Open…
VVL Systems is proud to announce a growth in our relationship with BMC Software – we are now an Authorized Education and Services Partner! What does this mean? We can deliver both private and public training for the following BMC solutions leveraging official BMC Software curriculum and delivery mechanisms: BMC Bladelogic Automation Suite (Server,…