Category: Product

Integrated Product Management Offerings: A set of IBM software and hardware offerings and best practices from across the IBM and Business Partner organizations that help design, deliver and subsequently manage the lifecycle of increasingly complex offerings, including product planning, software development, software design chain and asset management.

Flexible, Affordable Software Development: As organizations strive to reduce their capital expenditures and operational expenses, new deployment and licensing models can help them meet these goals.

IBM is providing new cloud test and development offerings, in both private and public environments.

Support for IBM Industry Frameworks and Customized Solutions: To support and extend the new Integrated Product Management initiative, and offer customers continual improvement unique to the challenges of their industries, IBM is investing in new best practices, assets and workbenches optimized to specific industry vertical use cases.

IBM’s Integrated Product Management offerings, based on solutions and software from IBM Rational, provide a holistic environment in which to design and deliver software while sustaining competitive differentiation through continuous innovation. Today, software development and delivery teams are being asked to respond to changes in the marketplace more quickly–but with fewer resources and mounting pressure to deliver more value. IBM can help speed innovation with reduced cost and risk by deploying a flexible environment for software design, development and delivery on multiple platforms.

IBM’s new token and term licensing models provide instant flexibility, giving customers access to the right software at the right time during a project, without an abundance of shelfware or the hassle of a new PO or evaluation process. With tokens, users can quickly move between products as the capabilities are required without needing to calculate the anticipated number of licenses for each product, taking the guesswork out of product usage.

As cloud computing brings an array of options to software development, organizations pilot and prove cloud computing models, and provide the tools to extend cloud offerings into production. IBM Rational Software delivery services for cloud computing help leverage the cloud to transform software by providing software development and test solutions across multiple platforms, available for private cloud deployments on the IBM Smart Business Development and Test Cloud and as an offering for IBM Smart Business Development and Test on the IBM Cloud. Specifically Rational has added products and services into the IBM Insurance Industry Framework, the IBM Banking Industry Framework, the Chemicals and Petroleum Integrated Information Framework, and the Service Provider Delivery Environment Framework.

EGL, a business application programming language created by IBM, is designed for developing portable, cross-platform applications and services that can be deployed to the appropriate runtime environments based on the evolving needs of the business.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/ibm-announces-new-offerings-to-help-organizations-drive-innovation-while-managing-cost-and-risk-2010-06-07?reflink=MW_news_stmp

“Customers looking to deploy Microsoft’s on-premise cloud and virtualization solutions will find F5 solutions to be a powerful complement for the enhanced application delivery, infrastructure visibility, and automation capabilities they provide,” said Dai Vu, Director of Virtualization Solutions Marketing at Microsoft Corp. “F5 shares our vision for the dynamic data center, and joint customers looking to deploy solutions in a number of distinct physical, virtual, and hybrid computing models will see added value.”

F5 offers a solution portfolio with both physical and virtual deployment options, providing comprehensive integration with Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager, Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V, and more. With F5’s BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager Virtual Edition, customers can conveniently scale their data center environments without incurring the added cost and time associated with deploying traditional hardware. This flexibility gives customers options for supporting Microsoft applications within a variety of data center architecture models, including those leveraging cloud computing.

F5 has joined the Microsoft Dynamic Datacenter Alliance to further its commitment to providing joint customers with the IT agility they need to support their organizations and maximize the value of their technology investments. F5 is the first ADN partner in this alliance and one of the “founding” network partners.

Integration with Microsoft’s new Dynamic Datacenter Toolkit reduces the time required to deploy new virtual machines, and simplifies integral functionality such as virtual application provisioning, reconfiguration of network traffic, and holistic health monitoring.

“Through collaborative interoperability and integration efforts, we’re enhancing organizations’ abilities to control and manage dynamic IT services.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/f5-optimizes-microsoft-solutions-enabling-the-dynamic-data-center-2010-06-01?reflink=MW_news_stmp

Dave Cole, senior director of consumer products at Symantec, noted that the familiar Norton security products on the PC are directly related to Symantec’s enterprise-level products – the new initiative has no such connection. “We saw all the new stuff popping up, funky new devices just using the Internet as a utility, digital picture frames, Blu-ray devices that you hope will get updates online, and so on,” said Cole. “We have to make a big statement, enter the market quickly, and adjust quickly.”

The company will refresh this product and “make it more fabulous,” releasing a beta in June.

Also that month, Symantec will release a beta version of Norton for Android with features like scanning for bogus apps, remote wipe and lock, and caller blocking.

Site blocking at the DNS level means Norton can block malicious sites for any device – it also potentially extends the parental control offered in OnlineFamily.Norton to connected devices like game consoles.

The third element of the Norton Everywhere initiative is smart device security.

Mocana’s existing platform works with 35 operating systems and 70 different CPUs.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2364208,00.asp