Digital transformation has meant huge upheavals for businesses across industries. While a strong information technology strategy has always been integral to large enterprise success, the function has now taken priority over others and become central to business operations.

“The last five years have been the most pivotal. … Because of all of the different technology and opportunities that are out there, businesses are now leveraging IT to be the business as opposed to support the business,” said Paul Beavers (pictured), vice president of products at BMC Software Inc.

This new dependency on IT has created opportunities for companies like BMC to ensure that IT, as well as digital businesses, are working.

Beavers spoke with John Walls (@JohnWalls21) and Lisa Martin (@LuccaZara), co-hosts of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, during the AWS re:Invent event in Las Vegas, Nevada. They discussed how Amazon Web Service Inc. is helping BMC support businesses through their digital transitions. (* Disclosure below.)

An emphasis on scalability

BMC’s current goal is to leverage the native services that AWS provides to not only decrease expenses for customers by lifting and shifting existing workloads and putting them into the cloud, but expediting application development.

“Application development within enterprises is now becoming more integrators of different cloud services and technologies as opposed to building applications from scratch. … AWS facilitates that,” Beavers said.

Because those applications are now central to business operations, the risk of an outage is more significant than ever before. BMC works to manage cloud strategies and IT operations at scale to ensure safe, smooth transitioning.

“We can manage … and monitor all the applications running AWS and give those CEOs and CIOs and CFOs the comfort that their applications are going to be there when they need to,” Beavers said.

Scale is BMC’s top priority, as the amount of data being generated by consumer use increases to a point that can’t be processed by humans. “Big data … the ability to search and analyze that data very quickly, leveraging machine learning and analytics — that’s where the big need is today, and that’s where companies like BMC are rotating to be able to support that massive scale, that volume of information,” Beavers said.

In order to achieve scale, enterprises are leveraging the latest technology both in the cloud and on-premises. BMC provides the monitoring and performance analytics to help them utilize that modern technology to its full potential.

Despite some of the growing pains his customers face, Beavers is confident that they will see digital transformation as a positive inevitability for remaining competitive in modern business. “What we do at BMC is help those customers that are on the edge, about to make a decision around cloud … ensure that they’re going to be OK when they go to the cloud,” he concluded.

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of AWS re:Invent. (* Disclosure: BMC Software Inc. sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither BMC Software nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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