IBM Expands Business Partner Ecosystem for Open Standards-Based Grid and Grow Program7 April 2006
get started with Gridcomputing, and as its name implies, grow (2). Linux is a key strategicunderpinning of these standards-based, flexible, and secure gridimplementations.
The fifteen most recent IBM Business Partners earning the "Ready for Grid"mark include the following IBM Business Partners: Alphinat, Altair, Cognos,DataSynapse, eXludus, Gemstone, Objectivity, Online Insight, PlatformComputing, SAS Institute, SearchSpace, Torex Retail, United Devices, Univa,and Voltaire.
"Today's announcement continues to demonstrate the momentum IBM is makingbuilding broad support by Independent Software Vendors to grid-enablecommercial applications in industries like the financial and industrialsectors," said Ken King, vice president of Grid computing, IBM. "Theecosystem building around the IBM® Grid and Grow™ offeringdemonstrates Grid computing is moving beyond academia and research into theenterprise, and now, into the mid-market as well."
Early adopter IBM grid computing Business Partners in industries in theresearch and development, government, financial, and industrial sectorcomprise many of the fifteen new organizations achieving the "Ready forGrid" mark.
Alphinat, which provides solutions for e-government, enabled itsapplication portfolio on WebSphere XD, a leading J2EE and applicationserver Virtualization platform.
"The enablement of Alphinat's Government Solutions portfolio on WebSphereXD offers our customers the opportunity to realize higher levels ofinfrastructure efficiency and flexibility running Alphinat's GovernmentSolutions across a virtualized grid environment," said Philippe Lecoq, COO,Alphinat.
Voltaire, which develops and markets interconnect solutions for highperformance and grid computing, achieved the IBM "Ready for Grid" markusing massive computing power to solve complex problems.
"Grid and Grow answers the call for an affordable and easy way to getstarted with Grid computing," said Patrick Guay, vice president, Marketing,Voltaire, Inc. "The combination of IBM blade servers and Voltaire's highperformance, low latency InfiniBand-based switching solutions provides ascalable architecture that gives more enterprises access to the benefits ofGrid computing."
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(1) IBM's Innovation Centers offer resources to deliver grid-enabledsolutions to customers faster and without the up-front cost of building atesting infrastructure. The validations can be conducted at locations inChicago; San Mateo, CA; Waltham, MA; and Hursley, England. The recentlyopened IBM Innovation Center in Shanghai supports grid computing and willhelp provide high-value solutions with Independent Software Vendors inChina and Asia Pacific.
(2) The standard IBM® Grid and Grow™ offering includes IBM's industryleading eServer BladeCenter platform, Grid scheduler, Red Hat, Novell SUSE,Windows or AIX operating system and services from IBM Global Services forapplication assessment, Grid scheduler installation, tuning, testing, andclient training.
Contact:John CharlsonIBM Media Relations914-766-4628charlson@us.ibm.com
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