BMC said that the deal will add database automation to its existing roster of application, server, network and client configuration management tools to provide what it claims is an all-encompassing business service management platform.

“BMC has continued to aggressively advance its mission of simplifying and automating IT, enabling it to respond adeptly to the needs and priorities of the business,” said Scott Fulton, BMC’s vice president and general manager for service automation.

“The acquisition of GridApp adds substantive automation capabilities to our portfolio, and strengthens our Business Service Management platform, creating the most efficient, consistent and comprehensive path to IT value in the industry today.”

The GridApp software will also be added to BMC’s Cloud Lifecycle Management solution, meaning that hosted and virtual systems will fall under its administrative remit.

BMC claimed that the tools will help enterprises tackle some of the most complicated areas of their applications while removing the skills challenges, and will improve flexibility and productivity.

Source: V3, David Neal (06.12.10)

Red Hat has announced its intention to buy Makara, an application deployment and management software developer.

Makara’s software is pitched at developers creating applications for the cloud, and Red Hat said that the purchase will boost its Cloud Foundations portfolio and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offerings.

“Cloud Foundations is about enabling customers and developers to have an easy on-ramp to the cloud,” said Paul Cormier, president of products and technologies at Red Hat.

“With the addition of Makara, we aim to further simplify application deployment and management. We welcome the Makara team and look forward to accelerating our delivery of PaaS solutions to the market.”

Red Hat plans to integrate the Makara Cloud Application Platform with the JBoss Enterprise Middleware infrastructure at some point in the future.

Integration with JBoss will enable interoperability with the main enterprise software packages and systems, according to Crenshaw, and will make transferring applications to servers, hybrid systems or the cloud a simple and largely automated process.

Red Hat will link reports generated by the Makara system to its Cloud User Portal and JBoss Developer Studio.

Source: V3, David Neal (01.12.10)

Attachmate Corporation is owned by an investment group led by Francisco Partners, Golden Gate Capital and Thoma Bravo. Novell also announced it has entered into a definitive agreement for the concurrent sale of certain intellectual property assets to CPTN Holdings LLC, a consortium of technology companies organised by Microsoft Corporation, for $450 million in cash, which cash payment is reflected in the merger consideration to be paid by Attachmate Corporation.

“After a thorough review of a broad range of alternatives to enhance stockholder value, our Board of Directors concluded that the best available alternative was the combination of a merger with Attachmate Corporation and a sale of certain intellectual property assets to the consortium.” Ron Hovsepian, president and CEO of Novell.

Learn more:

Novell Agrees to be Acquired by Attachmate Corporation
http://www.novell.com/news/press/novell-agrees-to-be-acquired-by-attachmate-corporation

Attachmate Corporation to Acquire Novell, Inc.
http://www.attachmate.com/Press/PressReleases/nov-22-2010.htm

Computacenter and Novell
http://www.computacenter.com/novell

V3, Shaun Nichols (30.08.10)

Citrix has agreed to acquire virtualisation specialist VMLogix. The company said that it would be adding the virtualisation management firm to help bolster its OpenCloud platform. The acquisition is expected to be finalised by the close of the financial quarter. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Citrix said that it would be using VMLogix products to serve as a management interface for its XenServe platform along with other components of the OpenCloud platform.

Read the full article here

www.computacenter.com/citrix

“We are already seeing an evolution toward ubiquitous encryption of sensitive data in applications, servers, databases, storage and networks,” said Jon Oltsik, principal analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group. “This will certainly protect data confidentiality but encryption and key management could quickly overwhelm IT organisations with new tasks and tools. With the combination of GuardianEdge and PGP, Symantec can address these issues as a one-stop-shop for enterprise encryption and key management. This should make Symantec especially popular with large security-focused organisations in financial services, health care, the federal government and other industries.” Learn more.

This combination transforms the IT industry.  With the addition of servers, storage, SPARC processors, the Solaris operating system, Java, and the MySQL database to Oracle’s portfolio of database, middleware, and business applications, Computacenter plan to engineer and deliver open and integrated systems—from applications to disk—where all the pieces fit and work together out of the box.  Each layer of the stack will be architected to improve performance, leverage innovation and centralise management so that IT will be more predictable, more supportable, and more secure.  Customers will benefit as their system performance, reliability and security goes up and their system integration and management costs go down.

Computacenter is a major partner for both Oracle and Sun, so don’t hesitate to contact your Account Manager if you wish to discuss your Oracle and Sun requirements further.

Or why not read more at the official Oracle Press Release: http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/044428

Or read more about the Oracle and Sun product strategy : http://www.oracle.com/events/productstrategy/index.html