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According to its Thursday announcement, BMC will sell and support Phurnace products as BMC BladeLogic Application Release Automation, making it the only solution of its kind that fully automates the application deployment process to streamline implementations, reducing the risk of errors and helping customers avoid downtime and outages traditionally associated with manual or script-based processes.
BMC plans to quickly embed Phurnace technology into the BMC BladeLogic Server Automation Suite product, providing customers with seamless, rapid full-stack provisioning and compliance of all infrastructure layers, including the operating system, patches, middleware and applications.
As businesses continue to expand their use of Java applications for critical IT services, organizations have encountered substantial challenges in managing the roll-out, stability and configuration integrity of these applications, and addressing these challenges with manual or script-based solutions often results in unreliable and delayed application deployments. Automation can drastically reduce the time and risk involved in deploying applications to a production environment.
"The increased frequency and criticality of application deployments and changes make it difficult and costly for IT organizations to rely on manual change and deployment processes," Gartner vice president and distinguished analyst Ronni Colville said in a statement. "Organizations need to embrace an automated application release solution to ensure efficient, repeatable, accurate and reliable application deployments."
BMC enterprise service management president Dev Ittycheria said the company sees the application layer as the next frontier in data center automation, and this merging of technologies puts BMC at the forefront of their field.
"[T]he combination of BMC's industry-leading automation solutions and Phurnace is a fundamental game changer," Ittycheria said in a statement. "By integrating Phurnace into our platform, BMC is now the only company that can help customers automate the deployment and configuration of business-critical Java EE applications. This acquisition significantly enhances our capabilities in the application layer, positions us extremely well to manage the next-generation data center and considerably strengthens BMC's business service management platform."
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