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Reduce the Total Cost of Ownership of Your Virtual Data Center With BMC Software and VMware Solutions

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Overview VMware technology works with the current infrastructure solutions by enabling to eliminate hardware dependencies, thus giving the flexibility to choose the right operating system for the right application. Virtualization solutions from VMware reduce TCO and increase Return on Investment (ROI) by providing opportunities for server consolidation, rapid provisioning, and availability and resource management, thereby creating an efficient, highly utilized, and available infrastructure. This paper describes common business problems facing data centers, and explains how BMC, in its partnership with VMware, can help to identify and solve these problems. Business scenarios describe how a combination of BMC applications and best practices - with virtualization technology from VMware - can address data center problems and improve overall efficiency.

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Publisher	BMC Software	File Format	PDF
Date Published	February 2007
Format	White Papers
Topics	Data Center, ROI - TCO

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