Appliance Foundry Announces Strategic Partnership with IBM to Develop Software Appliances

PR Log (Press Release) – Sep 16, 2009 – Hacienda Heights, CA, United States -- Today Appliance Foundry, an innovative provider of turnkey Software Appliances based on IBM’s market-leading WebSphere^® software, has entered into an agreement to become an IBM Business Partner. Under the terms of the agreement, Appliance Foundry and IBM (NYSE:IBM) will work together to deliver self contained, purpose-built bundles of  popular IBM software, pre-integrated & delivered ready for installation as “Plug n’ Play” packages.

Appliance Foundry delivers the infrastructure for building, deploying and managing a broad range of applications, providing a production-ready, high-performance foundation for creating and implementing agile and reusable service-oriented architecture (SOA) applications and services. The company has distilled nearly 50 years of experience in system design, administration, and deployment best-practices into pre-installed, pre-configured Virtual Machine Images that typically meet 90%+ of customer’s requirements.  Available for purchase and download from the company’s website (http://www.appliancefoundry.com), the service reduces software procurement and installation hassles, saving days or weeks over typical manual build and deploy processes.

“Appliance Foundry has only one goal — to deliver production-ready software appliances based on IBM software solutions. We simplify server software deployment with pre-built, configure-to-order WebSphere® software applications packaged for rapid deployment locally or on virtual computing environments,” said Albert Wong, company founder and Chief Technologist.  

About Appliance Foundry

Based in Hacienda Heights, CA and Raleigh, NC, Appliance Foundry (http://www.appliancefoundry.com) is a registered IBM business partner founded by ex-IBMer’s who believe that software should be pre-configured according to industry best-practices, and delivered to you as an “Appliance” ready to plug into your infrastructure and be put to work! By offloading the complexities of managing system dependencies and configuration planning to our experts, IT resources can stay focused on new information requirements, rather than the drudgery of installation and management of systems.

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Contact: Greg Heidrick
Phone: (919) 889-4328
Email: greg@appliancefoundry.com


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