BMC Mainframe Solutions Accelerate Secure Digital Experiences with IBM® z14™

Singapore
– 17 November, 2017 – BMC, a global leader in IT solutions for
the digital enterprise, today announced that it is furthering its commitment to
provide mainframe customers with innovative software solutions that exploit the
latest technologies, including the pervasive encryption provided with the ultra-secure
IBM® z14™ mainframe. Through its close partnership
with IBM, BMC is one of the first companies worldwide to deploy the IBM z14.

BMC
provides the fastest and most efficient mainframe database backup and recovery
solutions for protecting customers and ensuring critical business data is
secure and recoverable on the z14 – the most secure server platform in the
industry.

By
implementing the z14, BMC is well positioned to leverage the z14 mainframe’s
capabilities into its solutions, ensuring BMC customers will be able to rapidly
gain access to software, including backup and recovery solutions, that takes
advantage of the IBM z14 mainframe’s pervasive encryption capabilities.

“Being
at the forefront of leading edge technologies, while also accelerating value
and impact for our mainframe solution customers, is a key priority for our team.
By developing and testing our software on the latest IBM hardware, BMC ensures
our customers quickly get access to the best of both worlds: powerful BMC
software that delivers the ultimate digital advantage running on the latest IBM
z14 mainframe,” said Bill Miller, president of ZSolutions at BMC. “Through our
close partnership with IBM, we’re already ahead of the game in delivering the
latest capabilities to our mainframe customers, along with the highest levels
of availability, reliability, performance, risk reduction, and cost
management.”

The
IBM z14 also offers the advanced security that is critical with today’s
security and compliance initiatives, including the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR.) The z14 mainframe makes it
possible to encrypt data associated with any application, cloud service, or
database. Enterprises fully incorporating these capabilities into their digital
transformation and security and compliance initiatives, including GDPR, will
benefit from software that has been designed, developed, and fully tested to
take advantage of the IBM z14 mainframe’s latest features.

A key part of the GDPR regulation, which goes into effect in May 2018,
is making sure that companies’ mainframe data is secure and recoverable in a
timely manner. With BMC’s data management and recovery solutions for Db2® and IMS™, BMC customers
can trust they have solutions that offer:

“IBM
Z helps clients tackle today’s most difficult challenges with breakthrough
technology and capability,” said Ross Mauri, general manager, IBM Z. “You’d
expect it to have massive transaction scale, and it does. Even better, its
ability to pervasively encrypt application data at scale is second to none. IBM
z14 and the solutions BMC provides can help our mutual customers accelerate
their digital business journey.”

To learn more about BMC’s mainframe data management solutions,
including those that help mainframe organizations achieve and demonstrate
compliance with GDPR, visit https://www.bmc.com/info/mainframe-gdpr.html

To
read about BMC’s recently announced 2017 BMC Mainframe Research Report, visit http://www.bmc.com/mainframesurvey

To
read BMC blog posts about the mainframe industry, visit http://www.bmc.com/blogs/categories/mainframe/

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