ISVS DRIVE THE AUTONOMIC MARKETPLACE Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) are starting to drive the acceptance and adoption of autonomic computing. The need for Intelligent Management software that integrates and automates is the fundamental message underpinning the movement in which ISVs play a leading role. They achieve this by partnering with IBM in building the essential applications for the e-business on demand arena. Designed for the IBM infrastructure and systems management products that are already enabled, ISVs will be arming their mutual customers with applications that are part of a complete autonomic environment. Autonomic computing is in a state of rapid development, and ISVs are catalysts, helping this technology reach market maturity. To further autonomic adoption—first by innovators, then by the early majority, and finally by the masses—ISVs play a critical role in the proliferation of this and nearly all new technology initiatives. ISV acceptance of autonomic computing as a whole, as well as IBM's strategic direction, is critical for its penetration into the marketplace. ISVs must develop and enable their mainstream enterprise solutions for autonomic computing in order for their customers to begin to reap the benefits of this self-management technology. To develop their solutions, ISVs will be able to leverage the IBM's investment in already-enabled software, servers, and available services. For example, the Tivoli software is one "superglue that binds" autonomic computing across IBM brands and product families: -
eServer (xSeries, iSeries, zSeries, pSeries) -
Software Group (DB2, Lotus, Tivoli, WebSphere) -
Personal and Printing Systems Group (desktop, ThinkPad, IntelliStation, printing) -
Storage Systems Group -
IBM Global Services -
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