BMC Software buys Bladelogic

17 Mar 2008 | 13:12 GMT

By INQUIRER Newsdesk

$800 million

BMC SOFTWARE said it will pay $800 million to buy data centre automation company Bladelogic

BMC boss Bob Beauchamp, reckons $140 billion will be spent running data centers this year. “Automation is the only way IT can bring this spending under control," he said.

Gobbled-up Dev Ittycheria, Bladelogic’s president and chief executive officer said his firm's "next-generation architecture will be a natural extension of BMC’s BSM platform.” µ

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