BMC Software Inc. announced that it acquired Phurnace Software, a developer of automation software that reduces the cost, complexity and risk to deploy Java-based applications.

 

With the acquisition, BMC will sell and support Phurnace products as BMC BladeLogic Application Release Automation, company officials said. The service is designed to automate the application deployment process to streamline implementations, reduce the risk of errors and help customers avoid downtime and outages often associated with manual or script-based processes, according to BMC.

Financial terms were not disclosed.

BMC officials said they plan to embed Phurnace technology into the BMC BladeLogic Server Automation Suite product. This will give customers seamless, rapid full-stack provisioning and compliance of all infrastructure layers, including the operating system, patches, middleware and applications.

 

Integrating Phurnace technology into existing BMC BladeLogic deployments will offer the following benefits:

 

* The ability to model and deploy Java Enterprise Edition applications for WebLogic,  WebSphere, JBoss and WebSphere Portal.

 

* The elimination of scripting through automation and tokenization.

 

 * Rapid troubleshooting and remediation by auditing and synchronizing application server configurations.

 

* Automatic migration of applications from one version of an application server to another;

 

*The ability to preview and validate changes prior to deployment.

 

“By integrating Phurnace into our platform, BMC is now the only company that can help customers automate the deployment and configuration of business-critical Java EE applications. This acquisition significantly enhances our capabilities in the application layer, positions us extremely well to manage the next-generation data center and considerably strengthens BMC’s business service management platform,” Dev Ittycheria, president, enterprise service management at BMC, said in a statement.

 

As businesses expand their use of Java applications for critical IT services, IT organizations have encountered a number of challenges to manage the roll-out, stability and configuration integrity of such applications, BMC said. That’s why the company’s merger with Phurnace makes sense, experts said.

 

“The increased frequency and criticality of application deployments and changes make it difficult and costly for IT organizations to rely on manual change and deployment processes,” Ronni Colville, vice president and distinguished analyst at Gartner (News - Alert), Inc., said. “Organizations need to embrace an automated application release solution to ensure efficient, repeatable, accurate and reliable application deployments.”

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