Appliance Foundry

Providing IBM Software Appliances

Appliance Foundry has only one goal — to deliver appliances of IBM Software. Who would want an appliance? Customers and Business Partners of IBM Software that find that the initial installation and configuration of the IBM Software to be time consuming and complex. How does it work? Our goal is to configure the IBM Software to meet 90%+ of the typical requirements that customers have of IBM Software. Using best practices provided by the product InfoCenters, along with Redbooks, White Papers and IBM DeveloperWorks articles, Appliance Foundry has distilled them in a pre-installed, pre-configured IBM Software appliance. Appliance Foundry has appliances for the following IBM Software products: * IBM WebSphere Application Server * IBM WebSphere Commerce * IBM WebSphere Process Server * IBM WebSphere MQ * IBM WebSphere Message Broker * IBM Tivoli Monitoring * IBM Support Assistant * IBM Systems Director How to get started? We have 2 offerings — we provide several appliance packages that are typical IBM Software deployment configurations OR you can have a bespoken architecture where you get to pick a hardware platform, operating systems, which IBM Software products and a deployment pattern.