IBM teams-up with 12 India-based solution providers

IBM announced that a dozen key India-based solution providers will
incorporate its self-managing autonomic technology, based on open standards,
into their software and solutions. By working with IBM, these companies can
deliver software that can radically automate and simplify IT management and the
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. Being 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.

R Dhamodaran, VP-ISV and Developer Relations, IBM India

“Autonomic computing has risen to the top of the IT agenda for businesses
in India,” said R Dhamodaran, VP-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 and
open standards.”

The partners will use the IBM Autonomic Computing tool kit, which provides
software, technology components, tools, scenarios, documentation and other
resources to quickly add autonomic features to their offerings. According to IT
analyst firm IDC, India is the fastest growing IT market in Asia Pacific, with
the domestic IT market estimated to grow 19 percent in 2006. IBM has already
teamed with more than 70 business partners around the world.

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