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Novell has announced that IBM is delivering a portfolio of software appliances across IBM brands, all powered by SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. Leveraging the SUSE Appliance Program from Novell, this broad-based initiative enables IBM to deliver “plug and play” appliances for small and medium businesses (SMBs) and help independent software vendors (ISVs) significantly expand their routes to market.
“We see tremendous value in software appliances as it gives our customers and partners unprecedented flexibility combined with greater speed-to-market and lower overall costs,” said Jean Staten Healy, Director, Linux Strategy, IBM.
“The software industry is adopting software appliances as an easier way to package and distribute software,” said Joe Wagner, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Global Alliances, Novell. “In fact, IDC forecasts the software appliance market to grow to $1.18 billion by 2012. Having an industry leader such as IBM adopt software appliances is another indicator of the strength of this market. Add to this IBM partners like Black Diamond Software, who provide complete IBM middleware development stacks to enterprises as software appliances, and our other recent software appliance initiatives with several ISVs including GroundWork Open Source, Ingres and Zmanda, and it is clear this market is growing.”
IBM has created appliances based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server in the following areas:
- IBM Lotus Foundations
- IBM Lotus Protector for Mail Security
- IBM WebSphere Application Server Hypervisor Edition Hypervisor Appliances –· IBM Cognos Now!
- IBM Smart Analytics Optimizer