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,…
Although IT Service Management (ITSM) isn’t in the center of our magic quadrant, I thought of sharing the following links for those trying to get some truth out of the plethora of ITSM vendors in the industry. The following is from our friends at ITSM University. The state of IT Service Management (You have to…
If you are attempting to offboard a BMC CLM 2.1 NetworkContainer and it keeps complaining: Cannot delete NetworkContainer : Primary because it is referenced by ResourceSet : <SOME RESOURCE SET HERE> You have to bring up the Remedy User Tool, connect to the CloudDB, and open up form BMC.CLOUD:BMC_ResourceSet. Search for any entries…
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,…
Great news! VVL Systems is now an authorized BMC Software Consulting Service Partner. We are now able to support any BMC customer in their journey to an efficient Data Center ecosystem with BMC’s Bladelogic Automation solution (Client, Network, Server, and Orchestration). If you would like our expertise, contact us or request us by name through…
We’re ramping up to support proposal for lifecycle management of a 50,000 Virtual Desktop deployment. Need to put together the right methodology for minimizing end-user pains while maximizing IT efficiencies: -User self-service -Rapid-provisioning of elastic computing power -Pool/non-pooled desktop service (to cater to different service level requirements) -Patching Lifecycle – a must for an IAVA-aware…