BMC Software has enhanced its cloud management portfolio to enable enterprises, public agencies, and service providers to achieve the agility required for building and managing highly flexible cloud services, across public, private and hybrid cloud environments.

The enhanced cloud management portfolio creates clouds that allows IT organisations to transform from being the sole providers of IT services to being a broker of internal and external services to effectively balance business responsiveness, performance, and cost.

The new portfolio is designed to address the practical requirements of taking cloud computing from an interesting, pilot technology to a core, business-critical IT service.

The new offering is part of BMC’s Dynamic Business Service Management (BSM) platform, which provides IT organisations with a unified management capability across physical, virtual, and hybrid environments, providing an evolutionary path to cloud adoption.

The new enhancements for creating and managing clouds that work for business include: cloud planning and design; cloud operations; cloud governance and compliance; and workload automation in the cloud.

BMC chief technology officer Kia Behnia said over the last two years, they we have worked closely with more than 400 organisations to create a comprehensive cloud management offering that enables the agility business users expect from IT.

"BMC is the only offering provider capable of deploying and managing the broadest choice of cloud environments with the full context and rigor of comprehensive dynamic Business Service Management for ongoing operational support," Behnia said.