Mannheim / Frankfurt (Main), Germany, 03/2001

COMPAREX and BMC Software will supply joint solutions for implementing centralised, enterprise-wide system and storage management with a view to ensuring 24-hour availability of mission-critical applications and uninterrupted e-business operations. The sales organisations of the two companies will work together closely on the market.

The partnership will pool the strengths and capabilities of the two companies, who will offer an integrated product portfolio by bundling their know-how and resources in the field of Storage Area Networks (SAN). This will give customers made-to-measure solutions for managing enterprise-wide SAN environments.

Karl-Heinz Knapp, General Manager, Enterprise Storage at COMPAREX, explains: "Storage Area Networking is becoming increasingly important as a storage technology of the future. However, we are also seeing SAN and storage environments becoming ever more complex. While every storage manufacturer offers solutions for monitoring and managing his own products, the lack of any interoperability between manufacturers in the SAN sector means there is as yet no ideal solution available for cross-system management. In BMC we have a partner who excels in open solutions for complex system environments and is a pioneer in the centralised management of heterogeneous SAN solutions."

Thomas Kunze, Channel Manager at BMC Software Germany, commented the partnership agreement: "COMPAREX SAN solutions and BMC Software complement each other ideally. By combining our forces on the market we are looking to bundle the strengths of both companies and, in doing so, provide customers with cross-system management solutions for Storage Area Networks."

About  BMC Software
BMC Software Inc., headquartered in Houston, Texas, was founded in 1980 and is the world market leader in ASA (Application Service Assurance) Enterprise Management solutions for enhancing the availability, performance and restorability of mission-critical applications and data in complex system environments. BMC is listed among the world's leading software manufacturers in the Forbes 500 list. The company recorded sales of US$ 1.6 billion in the 1999 calendar year. BMC has around 6000 employees worldwide, more than half of which are occupied in research and development. The company has had a German representation in Frankfurt am Main since 1984 in the form of BMC Software GmbH and has other offices in Ratingen, Hamburg and Munich. Together these have a joint workforce of 340 employees.