BMC Software Introduces RESOLVE Storage Resource Manager — The Only Enterprise Storage Management Solution Spanning Both Distributed and Mainframe Environments

Business Wire, Nov 8, 1999

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 8, 1999--

RESOLVE(R) Storage Resource Manager Gives Customers the Most

Effective Way to Manage Increasing Storage Requirements

BMC Software Inc. (Nasdaq:BMCS) the leading developer of software solutions that improve the availability, performance and recovery of business-critical applications and data, today announced the general availability of RESOLVE Storage Resource Manager (RESOLVE SRM). Formerly SpaceView(TM), RESOLVE SRM is the only enterprise storage resource management solution that spans both distributed and mainframe environments from a single console, ensuring business continuity.

RESOLVE SRM delivers all of the previous features of SpaceView including capacity, performance, automation and reporting, along with central access to all storage management platforms. Unique in its ability to eliminate the need for platform-specific expertise, RESOLVE SRM provides a common methodology for managing multiple platforms.

The new RESOLVE SRM family provides customers with:

-- the most comprehensive automation and alert management

facility for storage that centralizes alerts from all

RESOLVE SRM components, OS/390 messages, and many third

party software products. A sophisticated automation engine

can be tailored to increase productivity by responding

automatically to storage events.

-- a consolidated view of ADSM (Adstar Distributed Storage

Manager/Tivoli Storage Manager) resources that delivers the

ability to manage exceptions, forecast growth, monitor

processes and take automated corrective actions by expanding

the support for IBM's ADSM backup servers.

-- access to storage related data from Oracle, DB2, and ADBAS

databases by providing data at the data file, table space

and table levels, users can determine how effectively space

inside the database is being used and when additional

storage will be required.

"The new RESOLVE SRM for ADSM component demonstrates BMC Software's leadership in solving very difficult and pressing problems in enterprise storage management," said Mark Friedman, founder of Demand Technology. "Storage administrators have an intense need for products like BMC Software's RESOLVE SRM that simplify the interface to ADSM and other complex storage management software packages. Backup procedures involving the movement of massive amounts of data from large numbers of distributed systems get very, very complicated. RESOLVE SRM's reporting and automation facilities should provide welcome relief to storage administrators who struggle running ADSM on a diverse set of hardware platforms and storage devices."

The RESOLVE Storage Resource Manager Family

The components of RESOLVE SRM include the following:

-- RESOLVE SRM Explorer offers a central point of control for

monitoring and automating both OS/390 and distributed

systems storage resources.

-- RESOLVE SRM for Distributed Systems offers an open, highly

scalable architecture for comprehensive enterprise storage

management, collects historical trend data for capacity

planning and forecasting, monitors space and I/O performance

and supports heterogeneous backup solutions.

-- RESOLVE SRM for OS/390 offers a powerful solution for

centralized storage management that assures the availability

of storage resources, balances effective resource

utilization and end-user service and maximizes the

management of OS/390 storage hierarchies.

-- RESOLVE SRM for ADSM provides enterprise-wide event

management and automated solutions, extensive out-of-the-box

reporting for multiple servers as well as forecasting and

trending features. It allows a consolidated view of ADSM

resources from a central console where a user can manage

exceptions, graph and forecast growth and monitor ADSM

process duration including backups, migrations and restores.

-- RESOLVE SRM Enterprise Storage Automation is a central

management facility that provides the ability to monitor

storage resources and be alerted to any potential problems

across the enterprise. The product provides powerful

automation tools including scheduling, multi-level problem

resolution and a rules-based automation definition facility

for SYSPLEX and other multi-image environments.

"BMC Software is committed to becoming the leader in the enterprise storage resource management industry and demonstrates this with its RESOLVE SRM solutions," said Kathy Taylor, senior director of marketing, RESOLVE. "Our Recovery and Storage Management Business Unit, announced earlier this fall, will continue to respond to the rapid changes in the storage industry and deliver best-of-breed solutions to its customers. RESOLVE solutions are a critical component of BMC Software's application service assurance strategy and provide the technology platform necessary for our Storage Area Network (SAN) solutions planned for the year 2000."

Availability and Pricing

The RESOLVE SRM solutions are now available from BMC Software and its agents and distributors worldwide and standard packages start at approximately $8,500 (US list).

For more information about RESOLVE SRM by BMC Software, visit http://www.bmc.com/RESOLVE.>