BMC reports strong quarter alongside Red Hat deal

BMC reported strong fiscal fourth-quarter results as the company's focus on managing datacentres and cloud-computing deployments paid off. Separately, BMC announced a cloud computing partnership with Red Hat.

The company reported fourth-quarter earnings of $123m (£74m), or 67 cents a share, on revenue of $562m, up 14 percent from a year ago. Non-GAAP earnings were 78 cents a share. Wall Street analysts were looking for earnings of 77 cents a share on revenue of $538.7m.

Elsewhere, BMC and Red Hat expanded their partnership. Under the deal, BMC's Cloud Lifecycle Management software will be integrated with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Enterprise Virtualisation Manager.

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