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BMC Software acquires Phurnace
09 January 2010 , Written by Dhruv Tanwar
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BMC Software has acquired privately held Phurnace Software, a company established by two University of Texas students who won a business plan competition. The financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

Phurnace spawned as a part of a class assignment with University of Texas students Daniel Nelson and Robert Reeves launching the Austin-based  company in 2006. The duo won the UT Moot Corp competition with their business plan and were recognized by the Austin Technology Incubator. The company, which now employs 21 people, raised $5 million in funding in 2007 and 2008.

BMC will sell and support Phurnace products as BMC BladeLogic Application Release Automation, a solution that fully automates the application deployment process to streamline implementations, reduce the risk of errors and help customers avoid downtime and outages traditionally associated with manual or script-based processes. BMC plans to quickly embed Phurnace technology into the BMC BladeLogic Server Automation Suite product to provide customers with seamless, rapid full-stack provisioning and compliance of all infrastructure layers, including the operating system, patches, middleware and applications.

Phurnace technology integrates seamlessly into existing BMC BladeLogic deployments and provides the following benefits:
  • Unique ability to model and deploy Java™ Enterprise Edition (Java EE) applications for WebLogic,  WebSphere, JBoss and WebSphere Portal;
  • Complete elimination of scripting through automation and tokenization;
  • Rapid troubleshooting and remediation by auditing and synchronizing application server configurations;
  • Automatic migration of applications from one version of an application server to another;
  • Ability to preview and validate changes prior to deployment.
“We see the application layer as the next frontier in data center automation, and the combination of BMC’s industry-leading automation solutions and Phurnace is a fundamental game changer. Only through automation can customers drastically reduce the time it takes to deploy applications to a production environment while dramatically reducing the risks and costs of the deployment process,” said Dev Ittycheria, president, Enterprise Service Management at BMC.

“By integrating Phurnace into our platform, BMC is now the only company that can help customers automate the deployment and configuration of business-critical Java EE applications. This acquisition significantly enhances our capabilities in the application layer, positions us extremely well to manage the next-generation data center and considerably strengthens BMC’s business service management platform.”
 

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