IBM And Intel Expand Scope Of xSP Prime Agreement
The expansion of the xSP Prime relationship to Asia Pacific will support sales and marketing activities in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan to drive xSP business on the Intel® Architecture-based IBM eServer** xSeries*** server platform. To date, the relationship between the two companies has covered the United States and Europe.
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February 19, 2002 18:23
IBM And Intel Expand Scope Of xSP Prime Agreement
SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- (INTERNET WIRE) -- 19-02-2002 -- IBM and Intel Corporation today announced that the two companies are expanding the scope of their relationship in IBM's xSP Prime program to the Asia Pacific region. The xSP Prime program provides technical, marketing and business support to help the growing number of developers, hosters and solution providers worldwide who deploy e-business applications over the Internet.*
The expansion of the xSP Prime relationship to Asia Pacific will support sales and marketing activities in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan to drive xSP business on the Intel® Architecture-based IBM eServer** xSeries*** server platform. To date, the relationship between the two companies has covered the United States and Europe.
"By extending our collaboration, IBM and Intel will serve the growing xSP market in Asia Pacific," said Steven Worrall, general manager, Emerging Markets, IBM Asia Pacific. "Through this relationship, we will be able to expand our resources to assist ISVs migrating their applications to the xSP model and to help existing service providers maximize the potential of the xSP model as deployed using Intel architecture-based IBM servers."
Based on industry data, IBM and Intel expect the xSP market segment worldwide to grow at a robust rate of 19 percent per year for the next three to four years. Market data also shows that the xSP market segment in Asia Pacific is expected to grow at an even faster rate of 24 percent Internet user growth in Asia is the fastest in the world at 41 percent per year.
"IBM's xSP Prime program provides developers and service providers with the technical and business support they need to successfully migrate to the xSP business model," said John Davies, vice president and general manager of Intel's Solutions Market Development Group. "The success and leadership of Intel Architecture solutions on the Internet combined with IBM's xSP Prime program is a natural fit that we expect will provide significant value to developers and service provider communities."
The IBM eServer xSeries systems incorporate mainframe-inspired features and self-managing technologies that deliver superior performance, reliability and scalability in Intel-based servers. These affordable industry standard servers offer customers Windows 2000/NT, Linux, Novell and other operating systems.
Intel's participation in xSP Prime helps to bring the benefits of Intel Architecture to the xSP market segment, supporting the developer that is planningthe migration of their application to the xSP business model on IBM eServer xSeries platform. Intel's involvement has supported the expansion of existing facilities and equipment at xSP Prime centers, which has enabled a large set of world-class solutions and applications running on Intel Architecture based IBM servers in all elements of e-business.
Over the last two years, 450 plus applications have graduated from the xSP Prime program worldwide. Of these, more than 40 percent have graduated on the IBM eServer xSeries platform, based on the Intel Architecture.
About xSP Prime
IBM's xSP Prime program is designed to provide IBM Business Partners, including ISVs, application service providers, Web hosters, Internet data centers and other emerging service providers, with enhanced go-to-market opportunities, market development funds and increased access to education, technical support and business development tools. The program also helps extend the participants' reach by teaming with IBM's extensive network of value added resellers, ISVs, solution development Business Partners, consultants and systems integrators. For more information on xSP Prime, please call 1-877-477-1255 (US and Canada) and 1-770-858-5052 (worldwide) or visit the website at www.ibm.com/xspprime
About IBM
IBM is the world's largest information technology company, with 80 years of leadership in helping businesses to innovate. IBM is a leading provider of e-business solutions and is dedicated to helping customers, IBM Business Partners, and developers leverage the potential of the Internet and network computing across a wide range of businesses and industries. The company offers a host of cross-industry and industry specific solutions designed to meet the needs of growing companies.
About Intel
Intel, the world's largest chipmaker, is also a leading manufacturer of computer, networking and communications products. Additional information about Intel is available at www.intel.com/pressroom.
* xSP is a term used to define Service Providers of various types: Application Service Providers (ASPs) offer applications via the web on a subscription or rental basis, Internet Data centers (IDCs) offer centralized data center facilities accessible over the Internet, Web hosters offer web-based hosting services for applications, Storage Service Providers (SSPs) offer web-based data storage facilities, Managed Service Providers (MSPs) host applications and sell the application with other value added services, and Network Service providers (NSPs) offer network access to other xSPs.
**The IBM eServer brand consists of the established IBM e-business logo with the descriptive term "server" following it.
***IBM, the e-business logo, xSeries, Enterprise X-Architecture are trademarks of IBM Corporation.
****Intel and Intel Architecture are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries. Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.
Contact: Andrea Minoff, IBM
Voice: 914-642-5898
Email: aminoff@us.ibm.com
or
Contact: Tim Schulte , Intel
Voice: 503-264-8788
Email: tim.schulte@intel.com
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