BDNA Insight Accelerates Critical IT Cost Reduction Initiatives

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BDNA, the leading provider of agentless IT inventory solutions, today announced the immediate availability of BDNA Insight 6.0, designed to help customers accelerate critical IT initiatives and reduce cost by up to 35 percent. Adding new capabilities for identifying, tracking and managing an organization’s full range of IT assets, BDNA Insight provides the foundation for high-priority cost reduction initiatives, ranging from software license compliance to data center consolidation, virtualization and green IT.

“Our customers across different geographies, industries and size rely on BDNA Insight to discover opportunities to deliver cost savings”

The new BDNA Insight solution includes major advances in discovery capabilities and in the BDNA Catalog, the industry’s most comprehensive hardware and software asset catalog. BDNA Catalog identifies vendor, version, support, power consumption and space metrics for tens of thousands of industry products. In addition, BDNA Insight 6.0 introduces BDNA Maps, adding new automated relationship discovery and mapping between various resources. This is critical information to understand and optimize the complex maze of servers populating today’s data center.

“Enterprises simply can’t afford not to adopt a standardized approach to IT asset inventory in their increasingly heterogeneous environments,” commented Patricia Adams, Gartner research director. “The use of virtualization, n-tier architectures and other innovative solutions are adding to the complexity of tracking assets, licenses and relationships. Furthermore, as IT organizations concurrently face mounting pressure to manage overall costs, they need the right information and metrics to make the right decisions and track the success of such initiatives.”

BDNA Insight consistently delivers immediate return on investment to its commercial and government sector customers. For example, one state government’s green IT baseline has identified estimated savings of $40M per year in energy costs alone. In another example, a data center consolidation and virtualization project resulted in cost avoidance of $8M in less than one month, through the early discovery of thousands of unmanaged servers.

Key BDNA Insight 6.0 Features

The latest major release of BDNA Insight delivers key enhancements to its core solution for IT asset discovery, content and mapping, including:

BDNA Insight

BDNA Insight delivers the most comprehensive, accurate and immediate IT inventory collection capabilities available. Enhanced discovery capabilities expose the full wealth of inventory data to other applications throughout the IT management ecosystem (i.e. ITAM, CMDB, ServiceDesk) through appropriate integration interfaces.

BDNA Catalog

BDNA Catalog uniquely combines accurate, relevant and current market information about thousands of IT vendors and tens of thousands of products. BDNA Catalog is populated with the largest set of products, versions, licensing and support details, as well as specific data for green IT (power, heat, space), software compliance, consolidation and other critical initiatives.

For the first time, BDNA Catalog is also available to industry partners as a standalone offering. [See BDNA press release dated April 28, 2009 and titled, “Troux Integrates Industry-Leading BDNA Technology Catalog.”]

BDNA Maps

A new component to BDNA Insight 6.0, BDNA Maps delivers broad technology mapping, from applications to virtualization and storage. The first release of BDNA Maps adds completely automated relationship mapping across physical and virtual environments to the BDNA Insight offering, and is designed to give immediate and important visibility into relationships between key IT resources.

“Our customers across different geographies, industries and size rely on BDNA Insight to discover opportunities to deliver cost savings,” said Fred Hessabi, CEO of BDNA. “This new release represents a milestone in the technology’s evolution, offering new mapping capabilities coupled with the first-of-its-kind and most complete hardware and software catalog available. Giving organizations the confidence they need to drive successful initiatives in compliance, virtualization or green IT, BDNA delivers the most comprehensive and accurate IT inventory, and promises a rapid and measurable return on investment.”

Pricing and Availability

BDNA Insight 6.0 is available immediately. For more information, pricing and partner opportunities, please contact BDNA directly at info@bdna.com or by visiting www.bdna.com. A new demo version of BDNA Insight, BDNA Express™, delivers real-world access to some of the solution’s key capabilities, and is now available for a free 30-day download from www.bdna.com.

About BDNA Insight

BDNA is a foundational solution for all critical projects, processes and policies. BDNA's patented technology, BDNA Insight, uniquely combines agentless, high-speed and detailed inventory of all software and hardware product assets with the industry’s leading technology catalog. Within days, customers gain the most comprehensive and accurate view of their IT infrastructure, including, for example, unique information such as power and heat metrics required to address green IT initiatives and software support information to accelerate compliance projects.

About BDNA Corporation

BDNA’s software provides IT organizations the tools to significantly reduce IT spending through a best-in-class agentless discovery, the industry’s best IT products catalog and award-winning IT asset management solutions. Our 350 customers are trend setters in ROI-driven initiatives; they include HSBC, Lockheed Martin, Motorola, Pfizer, State of California, Telecom Italia, US Army and the World Bank.

BDNA is based in Mountain View, California, with sales offices and partners throughout North America and Europe. For more information, please visit http://www.bdna.com/