Bmc software acquires bladelogic

BMC is banking on those suppliers leaving the management of heterogeneous physical and virtual servers to third parties such as itself. It is not a certainty, but it is a very reasonable bet. But I wouldn't count on Microsoft to live up to that expectation.

VMware and its VirtualCenter management product will probably remain homogeneous for some time, but Microsoft has already said that its management platform would manage Microsoft virtualization technology as well as VMware ESX Server and Xen.

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The acquisition comes at the tail end of a wave of consolidation in the data center software field, which started out earlier this decade. With the growing complexity of data centers for running public Web sites or corporations, IT professionals need productivity tools to manage their operations. Beauchamp said the vision is to allow people to provision applications in minutes, a task that sometimes can take months.

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