BMC Database Automation – Cloud Database Services Extend BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management to automatically create ready-to-use database services in public, private, and hybrid cloud environments.

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Key Benefits

» Automates deployment of complex

enterprise databases in the cloud

» Supports public, private, and hybrid

cloud environments

» Integrates with BMC Cloud Lifecycle

Management

» Delivers cross-platform provisioning,

patching, and upgrades for simple

and complex databases

» Deploys changes across multiple

databases and clusters

Business Challenge Enterprises are looking to cloud computing for self-service provisioning, efficiency, repeatability, and

accountability. Currently, building and managing databases on public or private cloud infrastructures

requires a great deal of manual effort on the part of the database administrator (DBA) to properly install,

configure, patch, and load database servers. While database vendors may offer prebuilt, preconfigured

virtual machines, the challenge remains in transforming that 'plain-vanilla' database into something end

users can actually start using.

With public or private clouds, companies need a solution that creates immediately useful database

services that conform to enterprise requirements, while also reducing demands on DBAs.

The BMC Solution BMC Database Automation creates ready-to-use database servers — even complex Oracle® RAC

servers — quickly and automatically. Unlike other solutions that require DBAs to maintain scripts to

deploy, patch, configure, and load database servers, BMC Database Automation, part of the BMC

BladeLogic Automation Suite, delivers comprehensive out-of-the-box content that handles the majority

of operations required to stand-up a useable database server. It even handles special cases present in

cloud environments.

The integration of BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management and BMC Database Automation lets business

units focus on defining their particular standard for cloud database services. Because BMC Database

Automation has the know-how to successfully execute the user request, enterprises can maximize their

return on investment in cloud automation by removing the need to create and maintain libraries of scripts

to implement cloud database services.

Support for Hybrid Cloud Delivery Delivering new — or changing existing — cloud services involves more than just managing instances of

an operating system (OS). Initial clouds are often conceived with reasonably homogeneous x86

environments in mind. However, over time, cloud diversity creeps in from many places. Multiple

hypervisors are increasingly being co-mingled in data centers, and cloud services often span physical

and virtual servers, where virtual servers may be privately managed or provisioned in public clouds.

BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management can provision, configure, patch, and manage dynamic, full-stack

implementations in public, private, or hybrid cloud environments.

BMC Database Automation extends BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management to instantiate, patch, configure,

and maintain database servers per user specifications and comply with enterprise policies — from initial

provisioning to service retirement.

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BMC Database Automation automates the following critical areas to drive value from databases in the

cloud:

» Policy-driven automation — Deploy databases according to your company provisioning

standards

» Intelligent database patching — Avoid downtime and lost data for business-critical

applications

» Schema definition and data-loading support — Enable instant usability

» DBA task automation — Relieve very expensive and highly trained resources from routine

and mundane tasks

» Data Migration — Move data between on-premise and cloud databases

BMC Database Automation provides a single console for all your databases, wherever they are running.

Cloud resources automatically appear in the console ready for database deployment, patching, and

other common database activities that BMC Database Automation supports — without scripting.

So whether you are interested in a capacity-on-demand database model, need to create remote backup

servers, or want to provide test environments for custom application development, BMC Database

Automation eliminates the time and pain of implementing and configuring databases in the cloud.

Configurable Cloud Database Services BMC Database Automation is built to meet the needs of organizations building cloud environments.

Recognizing that each organization has its own unique user base, set of database service offerings,

operational best practices, and cultural context, BMC solutions are created to be configurable to meet

your specific needs.

BSM for Cloud Computing BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management brings the best of Business Service Management (BSM) into the

cloud environment. By hastening the path between business need and IT delivery, the BMC Cloud

Lifecycle Management and BMC Database Automation solutions extend the best practices of

enterprise-class IT processes to the flexible and dynamic cloud, ensuring IT meets the growing needs of

the business.

For More Information To learn more on BMC Database Automation, please visit http://www.bmc.com/.

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