WebSphere Extended Deployment

Customer and IBM Business Partner Quotes

IBM Intranet
With WebSphere Extended Deployment, the IBM On Demand Workplace is now a world-class corporate portal architecture that functions as a foundation for simplified application integration, improved employee productivity and high availability." - Jim Doran, Distinguished Engineer and Chief Architect for On Demand Workplace, IBM

Diamond Computer Services
"It has been proved that grid infrastructure built using IBM WebSphere Extended Deployment (XD) can significantly increase reliability and service efficiency of Web applications while reducing TCO dramatically."
--Mr. Tanaka, Senior IT Engineer, Diamond Computer Service Co., Ltd.

Unilog IT Services
"Unilog is a major system integrator in Europe and an early adopter of WebSphere software. The relationship has lasted for years as Unilog trusts in IBM software strategy. We decided to get involved in the WebSphere Extended Deployment beta program because many of our customers use WebSphere and we are convinced of all the business value our customers will get by deploying WebSphere Extended Deployment:

• WebSphere Extended Deployment's dynamic clustering and virtualization of resources give our customers real opportunities to optimize their infrastructure costs by providing the right resources at the right moment."
  
• WebSphere Extended Deployment's J2EE batch processing capability will allow the same team to develop and manage various application types, avoiding duplication of resources and saving costs."

Perficient
"Perficient has been working with large scale WebSphere customers for several years. The enhanced capabilities provided in WebSphere Extended Deployment, such as increasing Quality of Service (QoS), increasing On Demand capacity, and significantly easing the management of complex implementations are significant strides towards providing a solid enterprise solution for IBM customers. Perficient looks forward to helping customers move to this state-of-the-art platform."
--John Jenkins, General Manager, Perficient ATS Division, Perficient

Siebel Systems Inc.
"WebSphere offers Siebel customers an industry leading Application Server. With the availability of WebSphere Extended Deployment V6 customers will be able to deploy Siebel's J2EE solutions and will realize increased availability, ease of administration and flexible capacity utilization. Customers will be able to get more work done for less overall cost, because WebSphere Extended Deployment manages workload to meet service level goals. Siebel's J2EE applications install and run unchanged with WebSphere Extended Deployment V6."
-- David Bernstein, VP of Technology, Siebel Systems, Inc.

University of Florida
"The business flexibility introduced in WebSphere Extended Deployment version 6.0 will facilitate the execution and management of the many compute-intensive workloads that we support. Having relied on the WebSphere platform to effectively reap the full value of our IT resources, the latest version of WebSphere Extended Deployment has proven to be a valuable offering that continues to help us maximize our IT investments."
-- Bill Noffsinger, University of Florida: Advanced Computing & Information Systems Laboratory