BMC vs VMware

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BMC
Based on 203 reviews.
VMware
Based on 1336 reviews.
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Overview
BMC Software, Inc. is an American company specializing in business service management software. Headquartered in Houston, Texas, BMC develops, markets and sells software used for multiple functions, including IT service management, data center automation, performance management, virtualization lifecycle management and cloud computing management. The name "BMC" is taken from the surnames of its three founders Scott Boulette, John Moores, and Dan Cloer.VMware, Inc. is a US software company that provides cloud and virtualization software and services, VMware's desktop software runs on Microsoft Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X, while its enterprise software hypervisors for servers, VMware ESX and VMware ESXi, are bare-metal hypervisors that run directly on server hardware without requiring an additional underlying operating system. In 1998, VMware was founded by Diane Greene, Mendel Rosenblum, Scott Devine, Edward Wang and Edouard Bugnion. Greene and Rosenblum, who are married, first met while at the University of California, Berkeley.
Sample Customers
BMC TrueSight Operations Management: Ensono, Transamerica, Boston Scientific, Park Place Technologies, inContact, TD Ameritrade, PNC Bank
BMC Middleware Management: University of California, Leeds City Council, SAP
BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management: JDA Software, Morningstar, Orange Business Services, Wipro
BMC Remedy Asset Management: Scripps Networks
BMC Track-It!: Florida Hospital, Mitchell International
BMC Helix Discovery: Windstream Communications, News UK, Mercator Group, Wageningen University and Research Centre (WUR)
BMC TrueSight Orchestration: Ameritas, Buckeye Partners, KNAB, Dex Media, News UK
BMC Numara: Airline Tariff Publishing Co, DHHS
BMC TrueSight Server Automation: State of Michigan, Fujitsu FSAS, Transamerica Life Insurance Company, SAP
BMC TrueSight Network Automation: SAP
BMC Data Management for IMS and DB2 on zOS: Airline Tariff Publishing Co (ATPCO), AtTask, MetaScale
BMC Helix Cloud Security: NHS, Vodafone, Kansas City Life, SKY Italia, Cybera
BMC Helix Cloud Cost: NHS, Vodafone, Kansas City Life, SKY Italia, Cybera
BMC Helix Optimize: Grupo Moura, Goodman, Aspect, Telefónica Colombia, Fujitsu
vCloud Director: MicroStrategy, National Democratic Institute, and NYSE Euronext.
CloudHealth: Pinterest, Dow Jones, RhythmOne, Ziff Davis, Acquia, Mentor Graphics, Lookout, Veracode, SwiftKey, Amtrak, Shi, Imgur, SumoLogic, NewsUK, Cloudera, Canvas
VMware vRealize Automation (vRA): Rent-a-Center, Amway, Vistra Energy, Liberty Mutual
VMware vRealize Operations (vROps): Science Applications International Corporation, Tribune Media, Heartland Payment Systems, Telkom Indonesia, Columbia Sportswear, iGATE, CSS Corp, Angel Broking, Adira Finance, Hipskind, Beiersdorf Shared Services, Innovate Mas Indonesia, Adobe, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi , Join Experience S.A, Borusan Holdings, Department of Transport - Abu Dhabi
vCenter Orchestrator: Beiersdorf Shared Services
vCenter Configuration Manager: Bank Al Bilad, Thomas-Krenn.AG, Pronto!, Unimed Juiz de Fora
VMware Service Manager: Seventy Seven Energy Inc., Symantec, KBC, Vodafone, Region Hovedstaden, Bank Audi, Hewlett-Packard, BT Global Services, Edogawa City Council, HDFC Bank Limited, Bank Al Bilad, ABN AMRO N.V. Singapore, Savvis, Abu Dhabi Ports Company, SAP AG, Fundaments, T-Systems
vRealize Business for Cloud: Rent-A-Center, SAIC - (Science Applications International Corporation), Tribune Media, iGATE, EMC, Deutsche Telekom, GEFCO, Banca Ifis
VMware Tanzu GemFire: Southwest Airlines, Indian Railways, GE Power and Water
VMware Postgres: The world’s most versatile open-source database VMware Postgres is open-source PostgreSQL binaries, packaged and commercially supported.
VMware NSX: City of Avondale, Lumeta, Kroll Ontrack, Heartland Payment Systems, Baystate Heallth, Exostar, Tribune Media, iGATE, NTT Communications, Synergent, California Natural Resources Agency, Bloomington Public Schools, Columbia Sportswear, Join Experience S.A, Schuberg Philis
Apteligent: AT&T, Bloomberg, CNN, Experian, Fox, JC Penny, Urban Outfitters, Nokia, Lutron, NASCAR, T-Mobile, Urban Engines, Microsoft, Lego
VMware Tanzu Observability by Wavefront: Box, Intuit, Workday, Groupon, British Gas, SpaceApe, Marketo, DoordDash, Lyft
vRealize Network Insight: NTTi3, VCIX-NV, VMware Networking and Security Business Unit, Illumio, CompuNet
VMware AppDefense: Interfaith Medical Center, Ceridian
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Top Industries
Computer Software Company
43%
Comms Service Provider
12%
Financial Services Firm
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Government
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Computer Software Company
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Comms Service Provider
22%
Financial Services Firm
6%
Government
5%
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