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BMC Software (NASDAQ: BMC) today announced it has acquired privately held Phurnace Software, a leading developer of automation software that significantly reduces the cost, complexity and risk to deploy and configure Java-based applications on physical, virtual and cloud environments. |
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Phurnace Software, Inc., the Java application deployment company, today introduced a new Configuration Viewer feature for Java applications managed by Phurnace Deliver. With this feature, Phurnace is providing not just system administrators but also business managers an easily viewable, graphical representation of the applications, components, and resources running on web application servers including how they all interrelate. |
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Phurnace Software, Inc., the Java application deployment company, today announced it has been included in the November 2009 independent report, “The Low-Hanging Fruit That Service Operations Teams Should Consider Now,” by Forrester Research, Inc. a leading technology analyst firm. |
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Phurnace Software, Inc., the Java application deployment company, today announced another record-breaking quarter of sales performance. Despite a very difficult economy, Phurnace once again beat its sales targets for the 3rd quarter of 2009. These results follow a strong first half, 2009 for the rapidly growing company. |
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Phurnace Software, Inc., the Java application deployment company, today announced it has signed its largest healthcare customer to-date, supporting a complex Oracle/BEA WebLogic® middleware environment. Organizations across the world use Phurnace Deliver™, the company’s flagship product, for auto deployment of J2EE applications onto Oracle/BEA WebLogic, IBM WebSphere®, and RedHat JBoss® web application servers. This latest transaction reinforces the compelling demand for Phurnace in both the healthcare industry and across the WebLogic install base (Oracle/BEA WebLogic releases 8.1, 9.2 and 10g). |
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Phurnace Software, Inc., the Java application deployment company, today announced Phurnace WebSphere Portal® Deliver™ now offers context sensitive, environment independent, full deployment roll-back functionality for IBM WebSphere Portal® applications. The new feature, available in the latest release, provides customers the flexibility to undo or roll-back complex changes or additions to their Portal environments. This allows Portal administrators to fully archive points in time and roll-back on-demand to a previous known state. |
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According to a new survey by research and consulting firm Hurwitz & Associates, manual configuration errors are wreaking havoc across IT organizations, not only impacting developer and staff productivity, but also causing significant delays in the roll out of customer-facing web applications. These errors are resulting in application downtime costing companies as much as $72,000 per hour. |
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Phurnace Software, Inc., the Java application deployment company, today announced a strong start for 2009 in a tough economic climate. Average deal size increased over the same period last year with more customers signing enterprise-wide agreements for Phurnace’s web application deployment solutions. |
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Phurnace Software, Inc., the Java application deployment company,today announced the general availability of its newest version, Phurnace Deliver™ 3.6 and Phurnace WebSphere Portal Deliver™ 3.6. The latest release focuses on increased ease of use and troubleshooting of environments, including enhanced features specifically developed for IBM® WebSphere Portal®. Phurnace’s products provide IT operations staff with the tools they need to effectively manage large scale enterprise implementations of IBM WebSphere Portal, as well as IBM® WebSphere®, Oracle WebLogic®, and RedHat JBoss® web application servers. Accurate configuration and streamlined deployments are some of the most challenging obstacles to successful Portal and web application rollouts. |
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Phurnace Software, Inc., the Java application deployment company, today announced that its flagship product, Phurnace Deliver™, now supports IBM WebSphere Application Server running on z/OS, the IBM mainframe operating system. This will allow customers to automate the deployment and configuration of mission critical web applications installed on IBM Series z computers -- a category of hardware expected to see significant growth with the increased adoption of private computing clouds. |
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Phurnace Software, Inc., the java application deployment company, today announced the appointment of Mike Turner, former CEO and Co-Founder of Waveset Technologies, Inc., to its board of directors. Turner is the fifth appointee to the company’s board. Waveset, founded in 2000, was acquired by Sun Microsystems in 2003 for a reported $150 million dollars. Mike currently focuses his attention as an Angel investor, corporate director and business advisor. |
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Phurnace Software, Inc., the Java application deployment company, today announced the availability of direct integrations with BMC’s BladeLogic® and HP’s Server Automation® (Opsware) data center automation applications. The integrations enable BMC and HP customers to fully automate their application deployment processes and replace the hand-crafted scripts that must be built for each customer implementation. The Phurnace functionality can now be accessed directly from within the Phurnace Deliver™ user interface or launched in the background from the consoles or as automated tasks within either BladeLogic or Server Automation. The integration also provides the capability of deployment reporting back into the BMC and HP systems. |
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Phurnace Software, Inc., the Java application deployment company, today announced the availability of a direct integration of Phurnace Deliver™ with ElectricCommander®, the build and release automation solution from Electric Cloud®. This will enable mutual customers to fully automate their application deployment processes. |
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Phurnace Software, Inc., the Java application deployment company, today announced it has successfully deployed a production instance of IBM WebSphere Portal software into the Amazon Elastic Cloud (Amazon EC2). Now available through the Amazon Web Services (AWS) solutions catalog, Phurnace is providing an easy on-ramp for companies to quickly deploy J2EE applications into physical, virtual or cloud computing environments. |
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Phurnace Software, Inc., the Java application deployment company, today announced it has been included in the list of “Cool Vendors” in the Cool Vendors in IT Operations and Virtualization, 2009 report by Gartner, Inc. |
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Phurnace Software, Inc., the Java application deployment company, today announced the appointment of Patti Soch as vice president of finance and operations. She will have responsibility for all financial management, human resources and facilities for the company. Soch has more than 24 years of financial experience with technology companies including VIEO, Inc., Visible Decisions, Inc., UniSQL, Inc., and Uniplex, Inc. She was most recently the chief financial officer at System Fabric Works, an Austin-based provider of high speed communications equipment and services. |
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Phurnace Software, Inc., the Java application deployment company, today announced the addition of two software industry veterans to its sales team. David Plunkett and Paul Shomper both come from the IT and development tools industry, and join Phurnace as senior sales engineer and senior account executive, respectively. |
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Phurnace Software, Inc., the Java application deployment company, today announced record-breaking sales for the quarter ending December 31, 2008. While the company did not release specific sales data, Q4 proved to be the biggest sales quarter since the company’s inception. |
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Phurnace Software, Inc., the Java application deployment company, today announced the appointment of John Balena to the role of Vice President of Sales & Services. He will have responsibility for all sales and services strategy and execution for the company. Balena has over 25 years of sales leadership experience with large technology companies including IBM, BMC Software and Symantec and with startup companies including two ventures that he helped start. He was most recently the CEO of Prime Paradigms International, a Symantec Platinum Value Added Reseller, providing consulting and implementation services for I.T. Governance, Risk and Compliance Management projects. |
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Phurnace Software, Inc., the Java application deployment company, today announced that its flagship product, Phurnace Deliver™, now supports Oracle WebLogic 9.2 and 10g. Phurnace Deliver currently supports WebLogic 8.1, as well as RedHat JBoss™ 4.2 and all of the market available versions of IBM® WebSphere® web application servers. Phurnace Deliver will automate the migration of applications from older to newer versions of WebLogic, therefore speeding the upgrade process for WebLogic customers. |
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