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“Amdocs recognizes that communications service providers are confronted with unprecedented challenges - building out NGN capabilities, reducing cost, increasing business flexibility and achieving a superior customer experience are critical business imperatives. IBM Power Systems provide a scalable, reliable, platform to manage growth, and recent IBM benchmarking tests indicate that our solutions can support more than 165 million subscribers in a real time environment. IBM and Amdocs’ strategic partnership delivers technology that helps service providers manage a complex technical environment to meet current and future business needs.”
Bill Guinn, CTO, Amdocs Product Group
Amdocs
"As a leading distributor for IBM's Systems and Technology Group, Arrow Enterprise Computing Solutions (ECS) is pleased to offer the Power Systems product line to our reseller partners as a complete solution, with one price and one set of options, that they can easily sell and manage."
Eric Williams, Vice President, IBM Group,
Arrow ECS, a business segment of Arrow Electronics, Inc.
"Avnet has been a long time IBM partner and leading value-added distributor of IBM's enterprise computing products, storage, software and services. The unification of System i and System p into the Power Systems product line vastly expands our opportunity and reach in the marketplace. It also makes it simpler and easier for us to bring new IBM products and solutions to market, since now we have one product, one price, one set of options and one set of Ts and Cs."
Bryan Buckner - Avnet Director of IBM Platforms
Avnet Technology Solutions
"IBM's latest processor additions to the Power 520 and 550 Express servers are ideally suited to run Chordiant’s banking solutions. These new processors build upon Power Systems momentum and offer the value and performance our joint customers need to run their businesses. The combined strength and excellence of IBM Power systems servers and Chordiants’ industry leading solutions provide customers in banking the advanced features and capabilities they require."
Lisa Caswell, VP Global Alliances
Chordiant Software, Inc.
"Chordiant Software, Inc., the leading provider of Customer Experience (Cx™) software and services, and IBM recently announced an extended partnership to deliver Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)-based solutions to help global brands with high-volumes of customer interactions better meet consumer needs and improve customer relationships. IBM's Power Systems is the ideal platform for Chordiant's advanced decision management solutions and multi-channel SOA platform using IBM WebSphere, DB2, Rational and Lotus software."
Pete Hammack, Director of Alliances
OEM & Technology Programs
Chordiant Software, Inc.
"Clear C2 is the provider of the award winning C2CRM, a leading CRM solution of choice for SMB to Enterprise customers worldwide. We are pleased by the new IBM Power Systems products, which take consolidation to a new level by allowing our customers to consolidate their mixed i5/OS, UNIX and Linux workloads to a single server platform. With the support of our C2CRM solution on i5/OS V6R1 and AIX 6.1, our customers will be able to take advantage of IBM's industry leading PowerVM virtualization technology. This will ultimately result in providing our mutual customers superior price/performance, increased investment protection, and lower total cost of ownership."
Mickey Patton, President
Clear C2, Inc.
"Cognos and IBM together provide organizations of all sizes an enterprise-view of their business by integrating scattered data resources, transforming data into clear, consistent, secure information and delivering business intelligence that can be shared within or outside an organization to drive performance. The ability of the new line of Power servers to unify applications and data across heterogenous environments leveraged by our Cognos SOA-based platform lets our customers drive consistent performance for sustained business optimization."
Leah MacMillan - VP BI Product Marketing
Cognos
"As a recognized leader in network-based messaging, value-added services and BSS solutions for telecommunications companies globally, we are always looking for new ways to deliver value to our customers. The new BladeCenter JS23 and JS43 along with the Power 520 and 550 servers are the hardware infrastructure that delivers the essential performance, energy savings and reliability to meet our customers' needs."
Palani Vel, Product Platform Director
Comverse
"HarrisData has delivered enterprise software applications to customers on the IBM midrange platform for over 35 years. The new IBM Power Systems strategy delivers our customers even more flexibility - from multiple operating systems to support for blades - without compromising the unique combination of security, reliability, and integration offered by previous generations of AS/400 and System i. HarrisData software is ready to run on IBM Power servers with the IBM i operating system, and IBM's new strategy insures that IBM Power servers will remain the platform of choice for HarrisData customers."
Lane Nelson, President
HarrisData
"IBM's newest blade servers the BladeCenter JS23 and JS43 Blade which includes built-in PowerVM virtualization allows customers to consolidate applications running multiple operating systems like UNIX, IBM i and Linux on a single blade server extremely efficiently. To monitor and schedule in these environments Help/Systems recently introduced Robot/SCHEDULE Enterprise with a graphical user interface (Robot/SCHEDULE Explorer) that provides single-point control for monitoring plus allows users to coordinate jobs and tasks across environments and can monitor and react to events such as File arrival, Directory creation and when daemons start and end. With the performance and reliability delivered on the JS23/43 and the ability to support multiple operating systems we see tremendous advantages for our customers to do more with less with these new blades— especially when paired with tools like Robot/SCHEDULE Enterprise."
Tom Huntington, Vice President of Technical Services
Help/Systems
"Help/Systems represents a broad worldwide customer base which depends on our Robot Automated Operations Solution and SEQUEL software for systems monitoring, job scheduling, security, encryption, backup and recovery, business intelligence, storage management and impact analysis. We are very excited about the launch of IBM's next generation of Power servers and Power based BladeCenter products like the BladeCenter JS12 that allow our customers to consolidate their mixed i5/OS, UNIX and Linux workloads onto one server platform. This will ultimately result in providing our mutual clients with an optimized and cost effective platform for flexible growth, superior reliability and mission critical availability. This is the perfect enhancement for the AS/400, iSeries and System i community. This group will benefit from always being on the latest Power technology and blades going forward. Our group will work hard to provide these mixed operating systems a cost effective systems management or business intelligence solution."
Tom Huntington, Vice President of Technical Services
Help/Systems
"The new BladeCenter JS23 scalable blade demonstrates IBM's continued commitment to delivering products and solutions that provide clients with best-in-class performance and industry-leading virtualization support. This offering coupled with IBM’s database software portfolio delivers a streamlined architecture for quick, manageable and cost-effective deployments."
Arvind Krishna, VP of IBM Data Management
IBM Information Management
"The Power 560 Express is an excellent mid-range server for companies running DB2 9 with the right combination of reliability and performance at an extremely attractive price-performance," said Arvind Krishna, VP Data Management & Worldwide Development. "The features of this latest POWER6 processor based server, combined with DB2 9 optimization for the advanced capabilities of POWER6, make the combination a valuable solution for our clients as they establish flexible, virtualized environments."
"The innovative technology in the IBM Power 595 server, plus the performance of DB2 9.5 and the power of SAP business applications, add up to an incredible platform. Companies can use this system to build top-performing data warehouses, run transaction-intense financial services, and speed many other mission-critical applications to manage the growth, complexity and risks in their businesses. And the new systems will even help companies 'go green,' with energy and cost savings. This winning combination proves the Power 595 system is the best in the business."
Arvind Krishna, VP of IBM Data Management
IBM Information Management
"Ensuring business processes and data are secure has become one of the top concerns facing today's enterprise. IBM Power Systems, combined with preemptive intrusion prevention security protection offered by IBM Internet Security Systems provides our customers powerful performance and ahead of the threat protection that prevents business disruption from occurring."
Val Rahmani- General Manager
IBM Internet Security Systems
"Domino customers should be ecstatic about the new IBM Power Systems announcement. The large number of customers using Domino on System i and p, can now further consolidate their mixed AIX and i5/OS workloads onto a single Power Systems server providing a lower cost of ownership. The winning combination of Domino and IBM's new Power Systems delivers a world class solution to our customers empowering them to meet their business demands."
Bill Hume, Director of Lotus Domino Development
IBM Lotus Software
"With the advent of the new Power Systems family of servers, Tivoli customers can take full advantage of running UNIX, Linux and i5/OS applications all on a single system through IBM's PowerVM virtualization technology. These Tivoli solutions with Power Systems are designed to reduce total cost of ownership and improve service availability and asset performance through more effective management of physical and virtual resources."
Al Zollar, General Manager
IBM Tivoli Software
"The new BladeCenter JS43 enables our customers to run and consolidate mission-critical applications in a flexible BladeCenter infrastructure, providing superior virtualization capabilities to improve the availability of applications and provide a flexible foundation for establishing a service-oriented architecture (SOA). Virtualization is critical in today's changing economic climate as companies seek new ways to efficiently manage and scale their computing environments while delivering the high-performance experience and power that users demand."
Tom Rosamilia, General Manager
IBM WebSphere Software
"WebSphere customers will see great value in the new Power Systems products. This new family of servers further empowers the integration of multiple applications combining the diversity of operating environments such as i5/OS, AIX and Linux, with the simplicity of a unified hardware platform. This allows our WebSphere customers to lower their TCO considerably by consolidating and optimizing their most demanding workloads onto a single platform. With IBM's new Power Systems and WebSphere, customers will have a winning combination to deliver world class solutions to meet their business demands."
Tom Rosamilia, General Manager, Application and Integration Middleware
IBM WebSphere Software
"IBM's Power 560 Express server enables WebSphere customers to integrate multiple applications under different operating environments such as UNIX, IBM System i, and Linux. By consolidating and optimizing mission-critical applications onto a single platform, customers can lower their operational and energy costs. With WebSphere running on the new Power 560 Express and its POWER6 microprocessor technology, customers can benefit from increased business flexibility, agility and efficiency."
Tom Rosamilia, General Manager,
IBM WebSphere Software
"IBM Power Systems provide Infor's customers with a powerful platform to run their business software in a high performance, environmentally conscious manner. The new BladeCenter JS23 and JS43 blade servers along with the new enhanced versions of the Power 520 and 550 deliver even more value and choice for Infor’s customers who place a premium on quality, reliability and the ability to scale their technology platforms as their needs grow. The new IBM Power Systems offerings complement these attributes and provide our customers enhanced value and options to fit their business needs."
Dennis Michalis, Senior Vice President, Worldwide Partners and Alliances
Infor
"The opportunity for customers to continue running Infor’s applications for the IBM System i platform, while taking full advantage of Infor’s other IBM platform product offerings, will deliver more value for their investment and give them flexibility and choice as their business needs evolve over time."
Mike Frichol, VP of Industry and Product Marketing
Infor
"Together with IBM, we have expanded the capabilities of DB2 Web Query to extend across mid market by enhancing productivity, managing cost and delivering value to thousands of IBM i clients across a range of Web-based BI applications. The new BladeCenter JS23 and JS43 blade servers along with the Power 520 and 550 entry servers offered with IBM i are ideal platforms for business intelligence applications and we look forward to continued expansion of our joint offerings with these new Power Systems servers."
Gerald Cohen, President and CEO
Information Builders Inc.
"Infosys customers have increasingly chosen IBM Power platform servers to deploy our Finacle Universal Banking Solution for overall scalability, performance and reliability. The latest IBM announcements optimize the IBM total cost of ownership value to a whole new level. We anticipate our customers will gain even further demonstrable value and benefit from IBMs newest systems."
Mr. Haragopal M., Business Head
Finacle, Infosys Technologies Ltd.
“Innovation Group is a leading provider of Policy Administration, Claims Management and Analytics software to the global P&C insurance industry. Our solutions are certified by IBM as SOA-ready, optimized on all IBM platforms/brands and coupled with IBM's Power Systems, provide carriers with a flexible, scalable, and resilient platform that adapts quickly to the ever changing market demands. Together, Innovation Group and IBM deliver complete, optimized and cost effective insurance solutions to our customers.”
John Schumacher, VP, Partner Development
The Innovation Group
"International Business Systems (IBS) is very excited about the new announcements IBM is making. As a world wide supplier of software for the distribution and manufacturing markets we see a distinct advantage in having a single platform with the POWER6 processor. As an original member of IBM's Vertical Industry Program (VIP) we think this will enhance our offerings significantly for our customers from a value and power perspective."
Dan Wells, Vice President of Marketing
International Business Systems
"With the new Power 520 and 550 Express servers being introduced with new POWER6 processors, our customers running AIX and Linux will find the improved performance of these new configurations particularly attractive to handle the heavy loads imposed by MRP regeneration and production scheduling updates. PowerVM virtualization, innovative RAS and superior support by IBM will provide SMBs the advantages that enterprise customers have enjoyed for years: lower cost, simplified management, and higher reliability."
Don Fitzpatrick, President
InterNetworX Systems, Inc.
"Customers today are faced with many business challenges, including system utilization, capacity reallocation, and price performance. The unification of i5/OS, AIX and Linux onto the Power Systems really addresses all of these issues. The capabilities that the new Power System will deliver to the marketplace is very exciting and will set a new Operating System unified standard platform for years to come."
Dave Lasseter - VP Power Systems
Mainline Information Systems
"This is the most significant announcement since CISC to RISC in 1995. It shows, once again, the flexibility of i5/OS to be able to move seamlessly to the Power hardware and allow our customers to enjoy the robust integrated function they have become accustomed to and take advantage of high performance competitively priced POWER6 systems. It will also allow further virtualization and consolidation, saving data center space, power, and cooling."
Bob Morici - Director Power Systems
Mainline Information Systems
"IBM’s latest processor additions to Power 520 and 550 Express servers are ideally suited to run Mincron applications. These new processors build upon Power Systems momentum and offer the value and performance our joint customers need to run their businesses. The combined strength and excellence of IBM Power Systems servers and Mincron applications provide customers across all industries the advanced features and capabilities they require."
Jeff Allen, Vice President of Sales and Marketing
Mincron
"The ability to scale the MSC solutions on the IBM Power System platform makes it ideal for both SMBs and large enterprises. The POWER6 platform is unprecedented in its ability to process big CAE jobs in a relatively short time. When combined with a GPFS-based global file system and scalable storage infrastructure, it enables an agile, scalable, and highly available infrastructure for enterprise enabled simulation. On POWER6, MSC SimManager achieves improved file transfer performance and true multi-site, cross-geography capability. All of this translates into improved productivity and huge time savings for our clients."
Dr. Reza Sadeghi, CTO,
MSC Software
"As a leading provider of enterprise-wide software and services for health and human services organizations (behavioral health, public health and substance abuse), we at Netsmart Technologies look forward to extending this exciting alternative to our customers as a member of IBM's Vertical Industry Program. The unification of System i and System p provides a powerful and affordable range of choices for our Avatar, CMHC/MIS and Insight customers seeking a versatile, scalable hardware platform. This approach also enables our customers to leverage their existing IBM hardware investment while easily integrating additional solutions to meet emerging business and IT requirements."
Kevin Scalia, Executive Vice President, Corporate Development
Netsmart Technologies
"IBM Power servers are the ideal platform for Nortel Unified Communications for mid-market clients. The joint IBM-Nortel offering combines Nortel's leading experience in multimedia communications with the reliability of the Power servers. The offering integrates with IBM Lotus Sametime and Lotus Notes or Microsoft Exchange and Outlook and offers a rich feature set designed for organizations with fewer than 1,000 employees."
Lori McLean - General Manager IBM Nortel Alliance
Nortel
"OpenPro and IBM together provide a flexible, scalable and fully featured business management ERP solution. This system uses the power of open source technologies with many advanced features that have saved clients millions of dollars in operating efficiencies. OpenPro works with the new IBM Power 520 and 550 Express servers, along with the new BladeCenter JS23 and JS43 blades providing a winning combination to our mutual customers."
Jim Clark, CEO
OpenPro
"The new IBM BladeCenter JS43 blade demonstrates IBM's commitment to providing customers with a blade based server with unmatched scalability and performance," said Paul Rodwick, Oracle vice president of product management. "With Oracle's Enterprise Performance Management System and Business Intelligence solutions, organizations gain better insight, make better decisions, and drive better results that are delivered more quickly. Combine this with IBM's new BladeCenter JS43 blade and customers now can have an ideal solution for enterprise-class performance, security and availability delivered on a blade solution."
Paul Rodwick, Vice President
Oracle Corporation
"The new IBM BladeCenter JS43 blade demonstrates IBM's commitment to providing customers an application and database server with unmatched scalability and performance,” said Angelo Pruscino, Oracle Senior Vice President of Product Development. “Oracle Database and Oracle RAC offers customers the industry's most comprehensive solution for a cluster database with a shared cache architecture that overcomes the limitations of traditional shared-nothing and shared-disk approaches to provide highly scalable and available database solutions for all your business applications and deploying on the new BladeCenter JS43 is an ideal choice for enterprise-class performance, security and availability."
Angelo Pruscino, Senior Vice President, Product Development
Oracle Corporation
"Oracle is committed to developing practices and products that help protect the environment. Our clients are interested in solutions that reduce the energy, space and cooling in their data centers. We are excited about the new 32 core Power 570 systems introduced by IBM, which are designed to use the exact same energy as the previous 16 core Power 570 configurations in the same four building blocks. This could give our customers twice the energy savings when running our wide portfolio of ERP, CRM, supply chain, infrastructure and industry solutions while enabling them to reduce their environmental impact and cut costs by increasing efficiencies."
Michelle Montalvo, Senior Director, IBM Global Alliance
Oracle Corporation
"Oracle provides a strong portfolio of ERP, CRM, Supply Chain, and Industry Solutions. With the next generation of Power Systems, IBM provides a platform that allows integration and consolidation of our business solutions running under different operating environments such as i5/OS, UNIX and Linux, on one server platform. This announcement clearly demonstrates the commitment to innovation and leadership that our joint customers have come to expect from Oracle and IBM."
Lenley Hensarling, Vice President and General Manager, JD Edwards
Oracle Corporation
"IBM's next generation of Power Systems allow diverse operating environments such as i5/OS, UNIX and Linux, to all run on one server platform. This capability, when combined with Oracle's ability to continually enhance and maintain customer applications through our Application Unlimited program, provides mid-size clients with an optimized and low cost platform for flexible growth, superior reliability and mission critical availability."
Ed Abbo, Senior Vice President of Applications Development
Oracle Corporation
"Oracle Financial Services Software Limited, a majority owned subsidiary of Oracle, is a world leader in providing products and services to the financial services industry and our applications help customers reduce costs, respond rapidly to market needs, enhance customer service levels and mitigate risk.
We draw upon the capabilities of the IBM Power Systems hardware platform together with IBM Power Systems software layers such as virtualization, availability and systems management. Together, we help our customers leverage technology to achieve their business objectives."
S Sundararajan, Senior Vice-President, Banking Products
Oracle Financial Services Software
"Now more than ever companies are relying on Windchill® to supercharge innovation and efficiency in their product development processes. Combining Windchill with the new IBM JS43 Blade’s increased memory, CPU capacity, bundled virtualization and support for solid state drives, creates a solution that can help increase flexibility and improve performance when managing product content and business processes throughout the product lifecycle."
Bill Neuman, Director, Windchill Product Management
Parametric Technology Corporation
"Patrick Townsend Security Solutions has 15 years of experience developing data security and secure communications applications for IBM platforms. We’ve seen many changes from IBM as they have advanced their servers from the original AS/400 to the latest Power Systems servers using Power6 technology. With the introduction of the BladeCenter JS23 and JS43 blades and the new capabilities on the Power 520 and 550 we see tremendous benefit to our clients and believe these new offerings will help IBM gain competitive advantage in the SMB market and attract a whole new set of customers."
Patrick Townsend, President and CEO
Patrick Townsend Security Solutions
"As an ISV, PFW provides an enterprise management solution for Heavy Equipment Dealerships. The New Power Equation, when combined with the excellent support we receive from IBM's Vertical Industry Program, positions PFW to win in a very competitive marketplace. We now have the necessary tools to offer our clients, not only increased value, but also industry-leading flexibility. Our customers can simplify their environments as well as manage their costs through the consolidation of multiple operating systems. Everyone will Win with Power Systems!"
Bob Morton, President
PFW Systems Corporation
"IBM has continued to drive innovation and functional enhancements with its Power Blade servers helping to contribute to a lower Total Cost of Ownership. The PowerVM virtualization functions which are featured on the new BladeCenter JS23 and JS43 allow large scale consolidation on blades very efficiently. Add to this the advantages blades deliver in terms of lowering power and cooling costs, simplifying management and complexity, reducing operational costs, and improving security and you have a real winning combination."
John Earl, Director of Security Technology
PowerTech
“In a market segment where performance, reliability and rapid deployment of flexible applications are very important, the IBM Power Systems platform with its virtualization, availability and operational strengths offers the functionality and peace of mind our clients expect,” said Jan Kruger, President, S1 Enterprise. More than 100 banks and three million consumer, small business, and corporate users worldwide rely on S1 Enterprise solutions to access and manage their financial information. A division of S1 Corporation (Nasdaq: SONE), S1 Enterprise is a leading provider of integrated banking solutions that deliver financial service providers a holistic view of their customers whether online, in the branch or in the call center.
Jan Kruger, President
S1 Enterprise
BladeCenter JS12:
"We are very excited about the new IBM POWER6-based JS12 Express blades supporting AIX, Linux, and i5/OS. The enhanced memory capacity along with the built-in PowerVM virtualization, EnergyScale technology, and the proven RAS features of the Power Architecture, packaged in the blade form factor is very attractive to our mid market SAP All-in-One customers."
Robert Vetter, Senior Vice President SAP AG
SAP AG
Unification/Power 595:
"The new IBM Power Systems 64-core, 5 GHz POWER6 based Power 595 server has the leadership performance and resiliency needed to serve SAP's most demanding customers for their mission critical business environments. This new server allows enterprises running SAP software to consolidate their UNIX, i5/OS and Linux SAP applications on to a single server, thereby lowering their TCO, reducing floor space and improving the energy-efficiency of the data centers."
Rainer Hofmann, Vice President Global SI Partners IBM
Global Ecosystem and Partner Group SAP AG
SAP AG
"Our clients, both small and large are interested in IBM's new Power Systems products since they provide a single platform which supports IBM i, AIX and Linux. The new BladeCenter JS23 and JS43 along with the Power 520 and 550 servers deliver efficient and cost-effective solutions. Combine this with IBM's PowerVM virtualization, availability and management capabilities and we believe our Sapiens eMerge™ technology and Sapiens INSIGHT for P&C™ customers will realize increased performance, consolidation efficiencies and lower TCO."
Michael Vaccarello, Vice President
Sapiens
"The mainframe-class scalability and availability offered by the IBM Power 595 server and IBM i operating system V6.1 will help ensure Silverlake Axis customers can support their growth objectives. IBM's Power Systems announcements offer a compelling value proposition for enterprises using HP/Sun Unix servers to move their applications to IBM servers and enjoy the benefits."
Dr Raymond Kwong, Managing Director
Silverlake Axis Ltd.
"At SIMULIA, we have been supporting IBM AIX and Power Systems for over two decades and have been very satisfied with the excellent performance in these systems. We anticipate that our customers will receive significant performance value from the new IBM Power 575 based on POWER6 processor technology, which will be ideally suited to run Abaqus FEA applications for our enterprise customers."
Ken Short, Vice President, Strategy and Marketing
SIMULIA
"Many of our clients run both IBM i and AIX in their environments and the unification of System i and System p makes a lot of sense for them. The new Power Systems hardware platform will allow clients to realize hardware savings and operational efficiency while supporting differentiated functionality through value added software stacks and operating system features."
Muditha Karunatileka - Executive Vice President of Sales
Sirius Computer Solutions
"Solarsoft Business Systems, with expertise in ERP software to manufacturers, distributors and wholesalers in the mid market, is well positioned to capitalize on this announcement as a member of IBM's Vertical Industry Program. We are very excited about there being a single, extremely powerful platform capable of running multiple operating system environments, as it allows us to more easily extend our solution reach. In turn, this will allow our clients to experience new levels of value in their IT investments."
Paul Craven, COO
Solarsoft Business Systems
"IBM's Power 550 Express servers ability to integrate multiple applications under different operating environments such as UNIX, IBM i, and Linux makes it the perfect platform for Sun & Son and its customers. As customers look to integrate their applications in a SOA framework that supports the needs of SMB in a cost effective way we believe there is no better solution out there."
Adrian Reason, Vice President, Strategic Alliances
Sun & Son
"Sybase continues to be a leading provider of solutions for AIX and Linux that have performed extremely well on IBM's Power servers. These solutions currently include several cross industry Business Intelligence Solutions including Sybase IQ for IBM Power Systems high performace queries and analytics and Sybase Risk Analytics Platform (RAP) for IBM Power Systems used for real-time data streaming analytics,' said David Jacobson, Sybase Senior Director of Marketing. In addition, Sybase ASE for IBM Power System database provides a robust, efficient relational database that drives some of the world's largest companies. Sybase also provides a leading Mobility Solution for IBM Power Systems.
"We are very excited about the launch of IBM's new Power servers that allow integration of multiple applications under different operating environments such as i5/OS, UNIX and Linux, to run on one hardware platform. This allows our clients to lower their TCO considerably by consolidating and optimizing on a single platform." Sybase and Power Systems work together to continually enhance customer applications to help ensure our joint solutions provide mid-market clients a platform for flexible growth, superior reliability and mission critical availability."
David Jacobson, Senior Director, Marketing
Sybase Inc.
"IBM's latest processor additions to the Power 520 and 550 Express servers are ideally suited to run Temenos’ T24 application. These new processors build upon Power Systems momentum and offer the value and performance our joint customers need to run their businesses. The combined strength and excellence of IBM Power Systems servers and Temenos’ T24 application provide banking customers the advanced features and capabilities they require."
Simon Henman, Technical Approval Manager
Temenos
"IBM's new BladeCenter JS23 and JS43 along with the Power 520 and 550 Express systems provide all the power needed for business applications. The exceptional performance of the POWER6 processor helps users do their jobs more efficiently and faster than ever before. The reliability gives IT managers peace of mind that the system will run smoothly in every situation and the price-to-performance ratio makes this a cost-effective investment. Whether the business is small, mid-sized or a large enterprise, these new IBM platforms are a perfect fit."
Joe Carroll, Director of Channel Enablement
Valogix LLC
"IBM’s new BladeCenter Power Blades and Power Systems performance enhancements for the 520 and 550 have crushed the price-performance barriers for customers and deliver new levels of capability. With the scalable JS23 and JS43 blade servers from IBM we see new markets opening for Premier Business Partners such as Vision Solutions. Our new PowerPacks extend these IBM offerings with business resiliency solutions that are affordable, easy to use and packed with innovative features such as continuous data protection."
Edward Vesely, SVP of Marketing and Business Development
Vision Solutions
"VAI's Enterprise Software together with IBM's Power Systems announcement furthers our ability to maximize and deliver fully integrated business software solutions that give companies of all sizes a true competitive advantage. The new Power Systems and POWER6 BladeCenter has enormous processing power and advanced software capabilities such as unprecedented object based system integrity, data encryption at all points, and industry leading virtualization with PowerVM set a new level in IT capabilities. This allows VAI to expand our markets and enables customers from a startup company to the largest data centers the ability to scale-up or scale-out applications as needed."
Kevin Beasley, CIO
Vormittag Associates Incorporated