IBM Meets Demand For Linux With Training Resources

IBM's commitment to Linux with the announcement of the extension Linux.Following by Power Systems 1000000000$ Company financial commitment to the Linux operating system last year reaffirmed, is Linux for IBM Power Systems Power Systems AIX for services and make available servers IBM iSeries and 54 IBM Innovation Centers and Customer Care Centers. This is Linux systems make better use of IBM Power Parallel Processing and 8 advanced virtualization.

Support facilities of these centers with adoption resources Linux provides a 10-fold increase in the support resource availability.IBM explained that as part of the offer, Linux developers can participate in workshops, both in person and online, teach them how IBM migration services with a variety of Linux distributions, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and Canonical Ubuntu Server.

Big Blue also said to be a practical support available for IBM Business Consulting specialists and business partners to do to create common market strategies.Businesses will help open the latest innovations in the search server, the Big Data and Cloud for Computers benefit. Want new technologies that can achieve this faster and cheaper than racks on racks of commodity servers to warm their data centers, today said IBM Power Systems GM Doug Balog.

Technologies for IBM Power Systems and Linux can satisfy these requirements, and to provide innovators with an advanced architecture, new types of software applications to customers a competitive advantage.In April, IBM announced a version of systems Hadoop-database data for Linux System z mainframes known as Zdoop, along with a version of its software for z / OS depends on mobile workloads.On founder Linus Torvalds Tuesday took to Twitter to remind us that it was released 23 years from the first version of Linux.

IBM-Apple App Deal for Businesses Hits Snag as China Spurns IPad

International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) 's goal of dominating the business applications market through an alliance with former rival Apple Inc. (AAPL) hit a snag where IBM has faced challenges: China.The Chinese government excludes Apple products like the iPad and iPad Minis from the list of products that can be purchased with public funds for security reasons, according to government officials familiar with the matter. This means that business applications software for IBM builds tablets may encounter obstacles to reach the booming Chinese corporate market.

The Chinese government has U.S. technology companies with the exception of publicly-funded purchases and examined the dependence of foreign products tensions rise between the countries over claims of hacking and cyber-espionage. The movement against Apple products could deter potential corporate customers that IBM has to expand its mobile phone business.Large companies tend to buy in China, where the government takes over, Frank Gillett, an analyst at Forrester Research Inc.said in an interview. It is a point of national pride here. I would expect the pattern to continue.

Lia Davis, a spokesman for IBM in Armonk York, NY-based, declined to comment on the decision of the Chinese government. Kristin Huguet, a spokeswoman for Apple, in Cupertino, California, declined to comment.China is for the company IBM portable device market becoming increasingly important, especially after announcing an alliance with Apple last month to develop software and services-centric iPhone and iPad devices for businesses manage. If you have a mobile phone manufacturer whose products many workers already use personally was the agreement to be a big boost for mobile long-term effort by IBM.

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While smartphones are not listed Chinese government last month, the state China Central Television that features Apple iPhone software can lead to leakage of state secrets. Apple denied these claims.For tablets in China, the commercial market with a high rate of growth remains, said IDC analyst Frank Wang in a research note on July 11. Shipments of tablets to businesses rose 14 percent in May compared with the previous year.

Dependent on China for about 16 percent of its $ 37.4 billion in sales last quarter Apple, data compiled by Bloomberg. IPad sales in the world's largest market increased by 51 percent, said CEO Tim Cook July 22.Apple is just the latest U.S. technology company tested by the Chinese government after revelations Edward Snowden passed a program of NSA spying and the U.S. announcement May over allegations of tax of five Chinese military for allegedly stealing corporate secrets face year.