BMC Software and Red Hat have expanded partnership to deliver a comprehensive cloud architecture combining offerings from both the companies.
The offering will provide a tightly integrated and optimised turnkey platform that will include the BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management offering running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation Manager, said BMC.
In addition, both companies intend to work together on integrations that would include the newly announced Red Hat CloudForms, based on the Deltacloud API.
The expanded partnership will enable customers to benefit from a fully managed end-to-end cloud infrastructure, beginning with the initial service request and continuing through provisioning, deployment, management and decommissioning, said the company.
BMC Software chief technology officer Kia Behnia said as organisations expand their adoption of hybrid cloud computing and simultaneously work to avoid vendor lock-in, they need an open, cost-effective cloud infrastructure supported with an enterprise-class, heterogeneous cloud management offering.
"Through our expanded partnership with Red Hat, we are bringing together market-leading technologies to deliver fully automated cloud offerings to enterprises, while preserving the agility and flexibility they require," Behnia said.
The combined architecture is expected to be available later this year.
