IBM Launches Collaboration Center for UNIX2 March 2006
IBM today announced the opening of the AIX
Collaboration Center (ACC). Through a two-year, $200 million investment,
IBM will use the center -- based in Austin, Texas -- to collaborate with
customers, developers, independent software vendors (ISVs), and academics
to drive innovation around AIX technology; and to develop, test and adopt
new applications and middleware for the AIX operating system.
The AIX Collaboration Center will focus on driving systems-level
innovations around key technology areas like virtualization, security,
performance and scalability, and will assist ISVs in advancing their
applications on AIX by exploiting new pSeries hardware and software
capabilities. It will offer a wide range of resources including education,
equipment, access to skilled technical consultants and remote or onsite
testing capabilities to help enable their applications for AIX and the
latest 64-bit POWER systems.
"Symantec and IBM have successfully collaborated to deliver industry
leading datacenter solutions that support customers' AIX environments,"
said Kris Hagerman, senior vice president, Storage and Server Management
Group, Symantec. "Symantec continues in its commitment to help IBM drive
additional innovation around AIX technology, particularly in
mission-critical, highly available application environments. We look
forward to participating in IBM's AIX Collaboration Center."
"SAS and IBM have a strong history of working together to ensure that SAS'
industry leading business intelligence and analytic applications take full
advantage of the underlying IBM infrastructure," said Clarke Thacher,
senior manager of UNIX research and development at SAS. "IBM's newly
formed AIX Collaboration Center will help strengthen this collaboration and
further advance SAS solutions on IBM's POWER architecture and AIX 5L
operating system."
The AIX Collaboration Center will provide customers and partners with new
programs and tools as well as early access to new technologies to refine
the capabilities and features of the AIX operating system prior to each
release. Additionally, they will have access to technical experts and
resources to help them deploy current AIX and virtualization technologies.
The AIX Collaboration Center will draw on the experience and expertise of
IBM Research, Global Services, Software Group as well as multiple external
resources to create a tight-knit community that will focus on driving
innovation around the AIX operating system and related software
technologies.
"We expect the AIX Collaboration Center to build on the current wave of
momentum around AIX in the marketplace," said Adalio Sanchez, General
Manager, IBM pSeries. "This announcement underscores IBM's strategy to
continue to lead the market and work with the community to create
technologies based on the needs of customers and partners."
The AIX Collaboration Center will be managed by Satya Sharma, an IBM
Distinguished Engineer and the chief AIX architect for the company. More
information is available at
http://www.ibm.com/servers/aix/collaborationcenter/index.html.
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IBM Media Relations
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SOURCE: IBM
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