Business value

BMC Database Automation provides the essential capabilities for automated database provisioning and maintenance, thereby removing bottlenecks in the change and release processes and freeing Database Administrators (DBAs) to make more valuable use of their time. As part of the BMC BladeLogic Automation Suite, it provides a cross-operating system, cross-database vendor solution for automating database changes and maintaining compliance across your enterprise database platforms.

Key benefits

  • Automating the provisioning of the most complex database environments
  • Deploying patches and upgrades across distributed platforms without increasing downtime
  • Automating across heterogeneous platforms
  • Enabling full-stack layered provisioning for rapid, automated resource allocation

Business challenge

Databases are one of the most complicated and critical parts of an enterprise application stack, requiring some of the most skilled resources to set up and manage. Despite this, DBAs typically spend up to 85 percent of their time manually performing administrative tasks, such as provisioning, patching, and configuration compliance. Not only is this inefficient (and therefore costly to the business), it also introduces unnecessary latency and inconsistency into IT operations.

BMC solution

BMC Database Automation provides for databases the same industry-leading configuration management capabilities that other products in the BMC BladeLogic Automation Suite provide for servers, networks, and middleware. This allows customers to deploy entire multi-tiered applications (such as Web + Middleware + Database) in an automated fashion, and then easily maintain them over time.

With this end-to-end solution, you will:

  • Reduce IT costs — Get the most out your highly qualified resources and database infrastructure
  • Improve Quality of Service — Reduce service downtime by ensuring that databases are properly configured, and that architectural complexities, such as clustering, are handled with minimal business impact
  • Improve application rollout — Reduce failure of multi-tier applications with automated database provisioning and configuration
  • Consistently enforce compliance — Efficiently maintain the compliance of your database infrastructure and ensure the consistency of database configurations
  • Enable cloud-based applications — Automatically provision and manage complex database configurations to support applications deployed in hybrid data centers

In addition, BMC Database Automation will help you support a number of key business initiatives, such as data center automation, application operations, and cloud computing.

Data center automation

Databases house the most critical and sensitive information in the enterprise, and require great care to ensure their compliance and proper configuration. This typically is enforced through complex, manual tasks, consuming much of the time of highly skilled specialists. If IT organizations don’t increase the level of automation in the data center, they’ll continue to operate manually — with all of the inconsistencies, errors, and high operating costs that manual efforts bring.

BMC Database Automation reduces IT costs and the risk of change by automating the provisioning, patching, upgrading, and maintenance of database platforms. It not only supports stand-alone databases,but also automates changes across the most complex database configurations, such as clusters, as well as across multiple database platforms. This enables rapid, reliable, and consistent change at the speed of business across the most demanding and heterogeneous IT environments.

BMC Database Automation provides the ability to properly deploy databases and database changes consistently, maintain the compliance of the database configurations over time, and very tightly control access to database management.

Application operations

Databases are often the most complex and longest-lived part of a multi-tiered application and require dedicated administrators to preserve their integrity. BMC Database Automation takes the complexity out of database administration by standardizing database provisioning and patching and by providing a single, cross-database platform tool for database configuration management.

Combined with the BMC Server Automation and BMC Application Release Automation — Middleware, this product addresses the breadth and depth of application deployments, enabling customers to use a consistent methodology across the board.

Cloud computing

In moving enterprises to the cloud, the biggest obstacles are often those related to the security and complexity of enterprise applications. For many customers, the database is at the core of these concerns, since it contains the most sensitive information, and it is the most complex to manage and secure. BMC Database Automation brings essential domain knowledge into the BMC Application Release Automation platform to provide comprehensive cloud provisioning and service management.

Features

  • Role-based access control and granular rollback
  • Automated discovery of database configurations
  • Automated deployment, including complex configurations and dependencies
  • Automated upgrades and patching
  • Rolling patch deployments to minimize downtime and business disruptions
  • Ability to deploy change across multiple databases and database clusters
  • Integration with other products in the BMC BladeLogic Automation Suite

 

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