BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management Reviews

Vendor: BMC

3.9 out of 5

5 reviews
80% willing to recommend

636 followers

What is BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management?

BMC's cloud management platform drives digital innovation with agile, full-stack service provisioning across cloud and traditional platforms. BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management scales easily while integrating with essential compliance and governance policies to reduce risk.

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BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management is the #40 ranked solution in top Cloud Management solutions and #47 ranked solution in top Cloud Monitoring Software. PeerSpot users give BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management an average rating of 7.8 out of 10. Based on the analysis of the 5 most recent BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management reviews, the overall sentiment is , with a sentiment score of 5.3. (Among the lowest in the category). BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management is most commonly compared to VMware Aria Automation: BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management vs VMware Aria Automation.

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Cloud Management

November 2024

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it_user790746

Infrastructure Operations Manager at Cognizant

Total build time has been reduced from four weeks to one week, then later to 24 hours. * Threat remediation: Combine with SecOps to link vulnerabilities to identified patches and create a remediation plan. * Compliance: Integrates role-based access control with pre-configured policies for CIS, DISA, HIPAA, PCI, SOX, NIST, and SCAP documentation and remediation. * Provisioning: Supports unattended installs and image-based, script-based, or template-based provisioning. * Configuration: Consistently manage change and configuration activities across a broad range of server environments with one tool. * Reporting: Assesses change impact or completes an audit using multiple dashboard views. * Patching: Supports and follows Maintenance Window Guidelines to ensure timely delivery of patches.

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it_user676359

Senior Specialist with 10,001+ employees

I think the solution is really scalable. It can handle huge numbers of servers with full network configuration. The only suggestion I have is, if you are implementing this solution, then you must have good experts on CLM. Otherwise, it can cost you a solution failure or huge monetary loss on the licensing part. And yes, going to BMC for PS is not at all recommend from my experience.

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Entprssol67

Enterprise Solution Architect at Engineering Ingegneria Informatica SPA

One of the major problems is that support is not so good. I used to have a support expert in Spain but they left two years ago. BMC doesn't invest a lot in network automation but network automation is a major point in CLM. There aren't any experts here in Europe, maybe they have in America, I don't know. The main problem is the support in Europe. We had a lot of problems with the people who got put on our cases. The agents that we were assigned to were not so capable. They wanted to replicate the problem. If you have an incident, it takes a lot of time to troubleshoot the problem. The incident support is not so good. The technicians don't know the platform well. BMC doesn't want to invest in CLM. Two years ago we had a lot of problems. Maybe BMC realized that CLM is an end of life product.

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BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management mindshare

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As of December 2024, the mindshare of BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management in the Cloud Management category stands at 0.8%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Valuable Features

BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management offers automated server provisioning across Azure, AWS, and on-premises, reducing training and ensuring consistency. Essential features include BMC Capacity Optimization, Database Automation, Bladelogic Server Automation with compliance, monitoring, and audit capabilities. Users benefit from a multi-cloud portal enabling blueprint designs in varied environments, seamless orchestration, and continuous compliance. It allows Java EE application management, change orchestration, compliance assessment, probable cause analysis, and business service relationship visualization, delivering unmatched flexibility and implementation potential.

"CLM has a multi-cloud portal because they have the resources to implement in various environments in various ports."
"Automates Java EE Application Deployment from an SCM system."
"Supports unattended installs and image-based, script-based, or template-based provisioning."

Room for Improvement

BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management requires more script-based features, complex installation, tricky network setup, and improved integration with AWS, Azure, and IBM SoftLayer. European support is inadequate, with ineffective agents and a lack of investment in network automation. Users experience issues due to technicians' limited platform knowledge and slow incident resolution. There is a perception that BMC does not prioritize Cloud Lifecycle Management's future development and support.

"One of the major problems is that support is not so good."
"Needs integrations with other providers to provide a custom public cloud environment."
"The installation and configuration can be tricky due to it being built on Remedy."