Business service management company, BMC Software, has realigned its business strategy as it sets sights on driving cloud computing in the small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) space.

This is according to Fabio Violante, CTO of EMEA at BMC Software, who said during yesterday’s BMC Day conference that the company’s new strategy aims to support the evolution of an IT organisation.

In partnership with ITWeb, BMC Software hosted an executive conference at The Forum, in Bryanston, yesterday. The event saw key experts revealing how enterprises can simplify and automate IT using cloud computing.

Earlier this year, BMC Software signed an agreement to acquire Numara Software, a global provider of integrated IT management solutions for SMEs. BMC made the move in order to accelerate the growth of its software as a service business in the SME sector.

Violante said: “We have placed a full dedicated team to work on cloud solutions and we have a solution that allows business to deliver cloud services, while letting organisations become cloud providers.”

He added that IT management as a service has become a priority for the company, which it manages directly as well as through its channel partners. “We enable organisations to build, run and manage private and hybrid clouds. Our strategy is to federate and manage external cloud services to ensure multi-source success.

“We have created a sound strategy to deliver a platform that supports heterogeneity across providers, hardware and software platforms, and to support physical, virtual and cloud environments.”

According to Violante, service providers such as telecoms operators are starting to provide differentiated, cloud-based services to public agencies, enterprises and consumers.

“Enterprises are overhauling IT management systems to manage the hybrid cloud environment in order to transform the organisation to become more agile. We are also seeing companies taking an evolutionary path in maturing their IT environment towards a cloud goal. However, IT needs an organisation’s entire commitment in order to deploy a cloud environment.”

Source:http://www.itweb.co.za/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=55079:bmc-software-drives-sme-cloud&catid=69

L&T Infotech has entered into a strategic partnership with BMC Software for IT infrastructure management services.

BMC Software (BMC), headquartered in Houston, is a $2.2-billion company engaged in Business Service Management (BSM).

L&T Infotech and BMC aim to offer infrastructure management solutions such as datacentre automation, IT service management (ITSM) and cloud computing management to global clients.

L&T Infotech has already launched its shared services platform for IT infrastructure support by leveraging BMC’s suite of tools.

This platform is being extended to global clients to improve operational efficiencies.

L&T Infotech will leverage BSM to help clients monitor and automate business applications and have a complete view of business service performance and availability, including service levels, usage patterns, assets and costs in a proactive manner.

Mr Uday Gharpure, Head-Global Business Operations, L&T Infotech, said, “With the rapid evolution of IT in recent years, enterprise IT landscapes have become increasingly complex. With sprawling technology platforms, enterprises are facing challenges in maintaining correct visibility of operations. Our BMC partnership tries to address these challenges and is in line with our endeavour to provide added value to our clients.”

“With our secure and reliable BSM suite of solutions, we bring leading-edge technologies to all customers which significantly enhances their market competitiveness,” said Mr Andrew Jason, Vice-President, BMC Partner Network.

L&T Infotech said its infrastructure management services (IMS) business unit focuses on providing end-to-end services to global clients, aimed at improving the reliability, availability and efficiency of their infrastructure.

IMS already supports global clients in banking and financial services, insurance, energy and petrochemicals, besides manufacturing.

Source:http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/industry-and-economy/info-tech/article3441840.ece

BMC Software, Inc. BMC +8.71% (the “Company” or “BMC”), the recognized leader in Business Service Management, today announced that its Board of Directors has unanimously adopted a stockholder rights plan (the “Rights Plan”) and declared a dividend of one right on each outstanding share of the Company’s common stock.

The Rights Plan is designed to ensure that all stockholders of the Company receive fair and equal treatment in the event that an unsolicited attempt is made to acquire the Company. The Rights Plan is designed to provide the Board of Directors of the Company with sufficient time to consider any and all alternatives to such an action and does not prevent the Board from considering or accepting an offer if the Board believes such action is fair, advisable and in the best interests of the Company’s stockholders. The Board of Directors of the Company deemed it appropriate and prudent to adopt the Rights Plan at this time. The Rights Plan will expire on May 11, 2013 unless renewed by the Board of Directors of the Company.

Pursuant to the Rights Plan, the Company is issuing one preferred stock purchase right for each share of common stock outstanding at the close of business on May 24, 2012. Initially, these rights will not be exercisable and will trade with the shares of the Company’s common stock.

Under the Rights Plan, the rights generally will become exercisable only if a person or group acquires beneficial ownership of 10 percent or more of the Company’s common stock (including in the form of synthetic ownership through derivative positions) in a transaction not approved by the Board of Directors of the Company. In that situation, each holder of a right (other than the acquiring person, whose rights will become void and will not be exercisable) will be entitled to purchase, at the then-current exercise price, additional shares of common stock having a value of twice the exercise price of the right. In addition, if the Company is acquired in a merger or other business combination after an unapproved party acquires more than 10 percent of the Company’s common stock, each holder of the right would then be entitled to purchase, at the then-current exercise price, shares of the acquiring company’s stock having a value of twice the exercise price of the right.

The Rights Plan exempts any person or group owning 10 percent or more of the Company’s common stock as of the announcement of the Rights Plan up to the amount of their ownership of the Company’s common stock as of the announcement of the Rights Plan plus an additional 0.001%. However, the rights also will be exercisable if a person or group that already owns 10 percent or more of the Company’s common stock acquires any additional shares beyond an additional 0.001% (including through derivatives, but other than pursuant to a dividend or distribution paid or made by the Company or pursuant to a stock split or reclassification).

The Company’s Board of Directors may redeem the rights for a nominal amount at any time until the tenth business day following the first public announcement of the acquisition of beneficial ownership of 10 percent of the Company’s common stock (or of additional shares by a person or group owning 10 percent or more of the Company’s common stock as of the announcement of the Rights Plan).

Details about the Rights Plan will be contained in a Form 8-K to be filed by BMC with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC is serving as financial advisor and Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz is serving as legal counsel to the Company.

Source:http://www.marketwatch.com/story/bmc-software-adopts-stockholder-rights-plan-2012-05-14