IBM Teams With 12 India-Based Solution Providers to Make IT Systems More Self-Managing

IBM Teams With 12 India-Based Solution Providers to Make IT Systems More Self-Managing

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that a dozen key India-based solution providers will incorporate IBM’s self-managing autonomic technology into their software and solutions. By working with IBM, these companies can deliver software that can radically automate and simplify IT management and underlying systems, while reducing costs for their customers.

The India-based solution providers will build IBM self-managing technology into their offerings over the next six months as part of IBM’s global Autonomic Computing Business Partner initiative. As the first Indian solution providers to adopt IBM’s autonomic technology, this signals a new era of computing in India, where other technology firms are turning to IBM to help develop systems with built-in intelligence to reduce IT complexity for customers. IBM estimates that autonomic technologies can reduce IT administration costs by up to 40 percent and increase IT utilization by up to 25 percent.

“Autonomic computing has risen to the top of the IT agenda for businesses in India,” said Mr. R. Dhamodaran, vice president for ISV and Developer Relations, IBM India. “IBM is helping solution providers quickly adopt self-managing autonomic technology, which is critical for customers trying to cut costs and remain competitive. In turn, as solution providers build IBM’s autonomic technology into their offerings they spur customer demand for products based on IBM middleware.”

The partners will use the IBM Autonomic Computing Toolkit, which provides software, technology components, tools, scenarios, documentation and other resources to quickly add autonomic features to their offerings. IBM’s software development lab in Bangalore has played an instrumental role in IBM’s autonomic computing initiative and created technology for the toolkit, which will help customers improve system availability and simplify software maintenance and administration.

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