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BMC acquires Emprisa Networks

BMC announced today the acquisition of Emprisa Networks, which provides automated network configuration, compliance and change management software. BMC had been partnering with Emprisa, and the Emprisa E-NetAware is part of BMC's new Service Automation solution, which deals with coordinating and running provisioning and updates; server and network configuration; and the packaging and deployment of software across heterogeneous systems.
Written by Dan Farber, Inactive

BMC announced today the acquisition of Emprisa Networks, which provides automated network configuration, compliance and change management software. BMC had been partnering with Emprisa, and the Emprisa E-NetAware is part of BMC's new Service Automation solution, which deals with coordinating and running provisioning and updates; server and network configuration; and the packaging and deployment of software across heterogeneous systems. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

With Emprisa Networks, BMC is filling out its IT business service stack. BMC is claiming that Service Automation delivers 90 percent savings in routine IT management costs. Whether that claim is accurate is questionable, automating IT is what corporations are willing to spend money on. It's a kind of Holy Grail, the lights out datacenter that zeros out resource requirements and greatly reduces errors. HP's acquisition of Opsware for $1.6 billion is in the same vein. Getting rid of complexity and automating a datacenter isn't as simple as installing software from HP, IBM, BMC or a host of others, but it's the right problem to attack.

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