SDG&E is using BMC’s Business Service Management (BSM) platform to manage a high-rate of system changes in the data center and ensure continuous compliance to security policy, operational practices and combined regulatory mandates.
BSM provides SDG&E with visibility into systems and network configurations, compliance and security controls. BSM will also automate changes to SDG&E’s IT environment to accommodate fluctuating demand and supply of renewable energy.
Once complete, SDG&E believes that the smart grid will incorporate all elements of the utility chain – renewable energy generation, advanced electric transmission and distribution technologies, and energy storage – to help turn customers into energy producers as well as consumers.
Lee Krevat, director of smart grid for SDG&E, said: “San Diego leads the nation in homes and offices with solar panels on our rooftops and electric cars on our highways. This means every member of our smart grid coalition plays an important role in helping us adapt to the energy needs of the future, which will look dramatically different from our energy needs of today.”
BMC Software said that it helps SDG&E maintain system availability and improve data center security by controlling who can access servers and network devices, capture data, audit the environment and apply changes or deploy new software.
