BMC announced BMC AMI, automated mainframe intelligence solutions
that will deliver higher performing, self-managing mainframe environments to meet
the growing demands created by digital business growth. Extending BMC's
leadership in mainframe innovation, BMC AMI solutions combine built-in domain
expertise, machine learning, intelligent automation, and predictive analytics
to help enterprises automatically manage, diagnose, heal, secure, and optimize
mainframe processes.
"Enterprise IT teams are experiencing complexity at an
accelerating rate, and data and transaction volumes are exploding - all while
trying to manage a changing workforce, close the skills gap, and optimize
costs," said Bill Miller, President of ZSolutions at BMC. "With AMI,
we are freeing up IT staff to work on high-value initiatives by removing manual
processes through intelligent automation. BMC AMI will automatically analyze dozens
of KPIs and millions of metrics a day, and proactively identify, predict, and
fix problems before they become an issue."
According to Gartner, by 2020, thirty percent of data centers that
fail to apply artificial intelligence and machine learning effectively in
support of enterprise business will cease to be operationally and economically
viable. The BMC AMI solutions enhance mainframe systems through
intelligent automation by predicting outages before they occur, solving
performance degradations, and mitigating cost increases.
With BMC AMI, customers benefit from BMC's expertise in collecting
deep and broad z/OS® operational metrics from a variety of industry data
sources, built-in world-class domain expertise, and multivariate analysis. The
new offerings include:
- BMC
AMI Autonomous Solutions enable
IT operations to automatically anticipate and repair performance
degradations and disruptive outages before they occur, without manual
intervention. This set of intelligent, integrated solutions extends to BMC
AMI for Security Management, BMC AMI for DevOps, BMC AMI for Performance
and Availability Management, and BMC AMI Cost and Capacity Management.
- BMC AMI Enterprise Connectors connect business-critical data from
the mainframe to the entire enterprise and simplify the enterprise-wide
management of business applications. These offer a truly holistic view of
enterprise data by streaming mainframe metrics and related
information in real-time to a variety of data receivers, including leading
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solutions such as Splunk,
IBM® QRadar®, ArcSight, LogRhythm, McAfee Enterprise Security Manager, and
others. The BMC AMI Data Extractor for IMS solution is available now, and
additional solutions will be available early in 2019.
"BMC has been instrumental in helping us grow our business,
deliver innovative solutions, and increase customer satisfaction, all while
ensuring costs are kept at optimal levels," said Gregg Kimbrough, Senior
Manager Hosting Services, Thrivent Financial. "We look forward to seeing
how AMI will help us move closer to achieving a self-managing mainframe so that
we can continue to keep up with the demands of today's digital business."
Earlier this month, BMC announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire assets of
CorreLog, Inc., which provides real-time security management to mainframe
customers. The announcement furthers BMC's commitment to the security
space, expanding the data connectors that are available to clients and
accelerating BMC AMI for security offerings.
To learn more about BMC AMI solutions, visit www.bmc.com/ami