Mark Settle joined BMC Software in June 2008. He has served as the CIO of four Fortune 300 companies: Corporate Express, Arrow Electronics, Visa International, and Occidental Petroleum. Settle has worked in a variety of industries including consumer products, high tech distribution, financial services, and oil and gas. During the early stages of his career, he was the director of a systems integration business unit within Hughes Aircraft Company. Settle’s formal training is in the Geological Sciences. He received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from MIT and a PhD from Brown University. Settle is a former Air Force officer and NASA Program Scientist.
Paper: Uncover the Benefits of Virtualization  |
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February 02 2011
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BMC Software’s IT organization, like many, began its virtualization and automation journey with some key objectives. They wanted to help IT become more responsive to business needs, and they wanted to better understand how the assets that the IT organization manages
support the business. In this paper, Mark discusses significant side benefits that far exceed the objectives of their original plan. These benefits include dramatic labor savings and productivity improvements through automation — achievements that help make
our software developers much more responsive to business needs at a time when all IT organizations must be especially focused on staying ahead of the curve.
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Paper: A Healthy Data Center Begins with a Wellness Self-Assessment |
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February 02 2011
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If you’ve got a headache, it’s usually easy to locate the cause of your pain and take a pain reliever to ease your discomfort. If the problem persists, your doctor can give you a checkup to help identify the cause. You may even be able to take certain actions to prevent the headache from occurring. In many ways, managing your health is like maintaining a data center. You need to identify the source of “pain” in the data center, and then take steps to alleviate that pain.
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Paper: CIO to CIO: Reaping the Benefits of Business Service Management |
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February 02 2011
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Can you imagine saving more than five million dollars by reusing servers and dramatically reducing lead times for asset provisioning? What if you could also reduce power consumption and the requirements for floor space by about 20 percent? The IT organization at BMC Software has achieved these results and more with Business Service Management (BSM), a comprehensive and unified platform for running IT. We have been able to meet our management challenges while achieving tremendous cost savings and improvements in IT effectiveness.
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