Avnet Hall-Mark to Open IBM WebSphere Innovation Center in San Antonio.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN ANTONIO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 5, 2002 Customer-Centric Showcase Offers Unique Opportunity to Design, Evaluate and Test e-business Solutions Avnet Computer Marketing, Hall-Mark Division, a worldwide value-added distributor of enterprise computing Refers to information technology in the larger company. See enterprise data and enterprise networking. products, software and services, Tuesday announced the grand opening of the IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) (R) WebSphere(R) Innovation Center in San Antonio San Antonio (săn ăntō`nēō, əntōn`), city (1990 pop. 935,933), seat of Bexar co., S central Tex., at the source of the San Antonio River; inc. 1837. , March 6 and 7. WebSphere Innovation Centers (WICs) are designed to provide a number of important demonstration services for value-added resellers (VARs) and end users, including "test drives" in a variety of operating environments, plus proof-of-concept support and technical briefings. This customer-centric facility will showcase a wide range of e-business solutions for a number of industry sectors, including WebSphere commerce and translation software, voice recognition software, enterprise application integration and Web enabling legacy data. The establishment of the San Antonio WIC WIC - WAN Interface Card follows the recent opening of the first Avnet Hall-Mark/Rave IBM WIC in lower Manhattan Lower Manhattan is the southernmost part of the island of Manhattan, the main island and center of business and government of the City of New York. Lower Manhattan is generally defined as the area delineated on the north by Chambers Street, on the west by the Hudson River (North . While the Manhattan WIC demonstrates solutions installed on hardware from a variety of Avnet Hall-Mark vendors, the San Antonio WIC will exclusively showcase IBM hardware and software solutions. This will provide a dual benefit to Avnet Hall-Mark's IBM resellers, who will be able to offer customers a look at WebSphere running on a variety of IBM hardware platforms Each hardware platform, or CPU family, has a unique machine language. All software presented to the computer for execution must be in the binary coded machine language of that CPU. Following is a list of the major hardware platforms in existence today. See platform. , such as IBM eServer This article is about the IBM family of computer servers. For the open access electronic text archive, see EServer.org. IBM eServer was a family of computer servers from IBM Corporation. iSeries(R), IBM eServer UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). (R) and IBM Intel(R) processor-based servers. Mike Colleary, vice president of IBM Software Channels Sales, Americas, noted that IBM continues its major investment in WebSphere to make it the e-business application platform. "By showcasing the talents of our resellers and solution providers along with the capabilities of WebSphere solutions, the WebSphere Innovation Centers present an exciting opportunity to help customers of all sizes in their e-business evolution," said Colleary. "We're very excited about the San Antonio WIC," said Fred Cuen, senior vice president and general manager of Avnet Hall-Mark's IBM Business Unit. "Not only does it provide the opportunity to see some incredible technology from the leader in e-business hardware and software solutions, it also illustrates Avnet Hall-Mark's commitment to IBM, to WebSphere and to our partners. No other distributor currently sponsors two WebSphere Innovation Centers," added Cuen. Avnet Hall-Mark has implemented a number of programs to ensure that its resellers are successful with WebSphere. It will continue to provide funding throughout 2002 for skills transfer and SMB-targeted marketing campaigns designed to raise awareness of the IBM WebSphere solutions, the WebSphere Innovation Centers and the technical abilities of Avnet Hall-Mark resellers. In addition, Avnet Hall-Mark has pledged incremental marketing funds for those IBM resellers acquiring new certifications in WebSphere or those participating in the IBM iSeries Big Plays program. "This is a great opportunity for Avnet partners that have a software practice or are looking to develop one," said Jack Morris, vice president of Software & Technology for Avnet Hall-Mark's IBM Business Unit. "IBM is putting a lot of emphasis on WebSphere software this year. The WICs offer a unique way for partners to jump on board, embrace the IBM e-business message and take full advantage of Avnet's additional software resources," Morris added. Grand opening events will be held March 6-7 at Avnet Hall-Mark's San Antonio facility, located at 6550 North Loop 1604 East. About IBM's WebSphere Software (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : IBM) WebSphere is Internet infrastructure software -- known as middleware -- that enables companies to develop, deploy and integrate next-generation e-business applications, such as those for business-to-business e-commerce. WebSphere supports business applications from simple Web publishing Creating a Web site and placing it on the Web server. A Web site is a collection of HTML pages with the home page typically named INDEX.HTML. Web sites are designed using Web authoring software which provides a graphical layout capability or by hand coding in HTML or both. through enterprise-scale transaction processing Updating the appropriate database records as soon as a transaction (order, payment, etc.) is entered into the computer. It may also imply that confirmations are sent at the same time. Transaction processing systems are the backbone of an organization because they update constantly. . WebSphere transforms the way businesses manage customer, partner and employee relationships. More information about the WebSphere software platform is on the Web at www.ibm.com/websphere. About Avnet Computer Marketing, Hall-Mark Division (Avnet Hall-Mark) Headquartered in Tempe, Ariz., Avnet Hall-Mark, North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , is an industry leading, value-added distributor of enterprise computing solutions, storage, software and services, marketing exclusively to the reseller channel. Avnet Hall-Mark is a division of the $2.85 billion Computer Marketing operating group of Avnet Inc. (NYSE: AVT AVT avian arginine vasotocin. See vasotocin. ), a global distributor of electronic components, embedded systems and computer products and services from industry leading manufacturers. Avnet's sales for fiscal 2001 (year ended June 30) were $12.8 billion. For more information about Avnet Hall-Mark, visit its Web site at http://www.hallmark.avnet.com. |
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