EMC and BMC announce global partnership

Storage management software provider EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) and BMC Software, Inc. (NYSE: BMC), an enterprise management company, have announced a global sales, marketing and technology partnership.

The companies see this as building on a common goal to deliver end-to-end storage management capabilities to enterprise storage customers.

At the foundation of this partnership, EMC has acquired rights to BMC Software’s PATROL® Storage Manager software, and BMC Software will resell EMC’s ControlCenter family of products as its exclusive storage resource management offering through its MarketZone program.

Joe Tucci, EMC’s President and CEO, said, "The partnership with BMC marks our first reseller arrangement with an independent software provider to market EMC ControlCenter as their storage resource management offering on an exclusive basis.

"This deal is indicative of the significant investments EMC has made to deliver the world’s most functional, open, heterogeneous storage software. Our industry-leading ControlCenter family will enhance and complement BMC’s leading enterprise systems management and services offerings.

"Customers will benefit both from BMC’s deep knowledge at the server and application level and from EMC’s expertise at the storage and storage network level, providing an end-to-end management solution handling nearly every layer of the IT infrastructure."