7 posts and columns on BMC

Fast-Growing Cloud Management Start-Up Okta Hires Two New VPs

in News on February 1 at 7:38 am PT

Customers are up threefold and end users are up by a factor of six. Time to put some more talent on the executive team? Yes.
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BMC Acquires IT Management Software Player Numara

in News on January 30 at 11:27 am PT

BMC Software said today it would acquire Numara Software, a privately held company that specializes in IT management software. The move, BMC said, will expand its software-as-a-service offerings into the mid-market. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

A Cloud Application That Saves Lives

in Enterprise on April 5, 2011 at 5:06 pm PT

Matching people who need kidney transplants with compatible donors is a profoundly complex problem. A software company veteran who once needed a kidney himself has found a way to help hospitals speed up the search for donors.

Should You Sell Your Company?

in News on January 18, 2011 at 3:14 pm PT

One of the most difficult decisions that a CEO ever makes is whether or not to sell her company. Logically, determining whether selling a company will be better in the long term than continuing to run it stand-alone involves a huge number of factors, most of which are speculative or unknown. And if you are the founder, the logical part is the easy part.

Meet Lew Tucker, Cisco's Mr. Cloud

in Enterprise on December 6, 2010 at 3:30 pm PT

Cisco Systems is serious about cloud computing. If today’s news about its strategic alliance with BMC Software doesn’t make that clear, talking with Lew Tucker, Cisco’s CTO for Cloud Computing certainly will.

The Case for the Fat Start-Up

in News on March 17, 2010 at 12:00 pm PT

Much has been written and said about the current economic downturn and the resulting lessons on how to run high-technology companies. Quite famously, Sequoia Capital, the premier venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, held a mandatory all-CEO meeting in fall 2008 during which it advised them to “Cut spending. Cut fat. Preserve capital.”

Mr. Rubinstein? Michael Dell on Line 1, Sir. Shall I Put Him Through to Voicemail?

in News on June 11, 2009 at 1:00 pm PT

Is Dell positioning itself to make a large acquisition? It certainly appears that way. The company recently hired mergers-and-acquisitions specialist David Johnson away from IBM. And yesterday, it sold off $1 billion in bonds. Dell already has $9.7 billion in cash reserves on hand, so presumably it needs that extra billion for something beyond the “general corporate purposes” it claims.
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