Today at Cisco Live, Cisco’s annual IT and communications conference, BMC Software (NASDAQ:BMC) announced that it has achieved the Cisco Cloud Builder designation within the Cisco® Cloud Partner Program.

“BMC’s partnership with Cisco is a powerful resource for Cisco partners seeking to leverage the strength of the BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management solution with the breadth and depth of Cisco’s offering to the cloud marketplace”

This designation recognizes BMC’s competencies to sell and implement Cisco network-centric, end-to-end cloud solutions for end-customers and cloud providers. As a Cisco-designated Cloud Builder, BMC has competencies across all Cisco infrastructure components (security, networking, compute, storage and virtualization), cloud management applications, and a formal cloud professional services practice.

“BMC’s partnership with Cisco is a powerful resource for Cisco partners seeking to leverage the strength of the BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management solution with the breadth and depth of Cisco’s offering to the cloud marketplace,” said Jason Andrew, vice president, Channel Sales for BMC. “For IT departments transforming their cloud infrastructures, Cisco, BMC and the Cisco Cloud Builder community deliver powerful resources and expertise that produce more elegant and efficient cloud computing solutions for their customers’ business needs.”

The Cisco Cloud Partner Program empowers channel partners to build a Cisco-centric end-to-end cloud solutions and professional services practice. This channel partner program offers training to help channel partners as they enhance their competencies in selling and implementing cloud offerings that include Cisco cloud architectures and third-party technology.

BMC and Cisco have a strong track record of delivering solutions for cloud computing excellence that combine the BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management product and the Cisco Integrated Cloud Delivery Platform to help service providers deploy and manage large-scale cloud infrastructure service delivery environments more quickly and cost effectively than has previously been possible.

To learn more about BMC, the Cloud Builder program and the Integrated Cloud Delivery Platform, visit www.bmc.com/cloud.

Business runs on IT. IT runs on BMC Software.

Business thrives when IT runs smarter, faster and stronger. That’s why the most demanding IT organizations in the world rely on BMC Software across distributed, mainframe, virtual and cloud environments. Recognized as the leader in Business Service Management, BMC offers a comprehensive approach and unified platform that helps IT organizations cut cost, reduce risk and drive business profit. For the four fiscal quarters ended March 31, 2011, BMC revenue was approximately $2.1 billion. Visit www.bmc.com for more information.

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