IBM to Deliver Software via Cloud Computing With Amazon Web Services

ARMONK, NY, Feb 11 (MARKET WIRE) --
IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced a new agreement with Amazon Web Services
(AWS), a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc., to deliver IBM's market leading
software to clients and developers. The new "pay-as-you-go" model
provides clients with access to development and production instances of
IBM DB2, Informix Dynamic Server, WebSphere Portal, Lotus Web Content
Management, WebSphere sMash and Novell's SUSE Linux operating system
software in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) environment,
providing a comprehensive portfolio of products available on AWS.

Businesses today are looking for ways to quickly build, deploy and take
advantage of the flexibility that cloud computing environments can bring.
This is challenging for organizations that are constrained by limited
resources, technical skills and capital, as they look to their IT
infrastructure to help them gain a competitive advantage. IBM and Amazon
Web Services are helping to address these challenges by making it easier
for software developers to build solutions based on open standards and
backed up by the necessary technical resources to help simplify the
process.

Effective immediately, IBM is making available new Amazon Machine Images
(AMIs) at no charge for development and test purposes, enabling software
developers to quickly build pre-production applications based on IBM
software within Amazon EC2. The new portfolio will over time extend to
include Service Management capabilities from IBM Tivoli software for
Amazon EC2 to help clients better control and automate their dynamic
infrastructures in the cloud.

The IBM software images for full production running in Amazon EC2 will be
launched in beta in the coming months, with pricing to be announced. All
developers and customers will have the operational capability to run
development and production instances of IBM software for an hourly price
per instance.

Additionally, customers will also be able to run their already-purchased
IBM software on Amazon EC2. For more information, visit:
http://www.ibm.com/software/lotus/passportadvantage/pvu_for_Amazon_Elastic_compu
e_cloud.html.

"IBM is offering yet another way for our partners and customers to build
solutions that can help them meet their business goals," said Dave
Mitchell, Director of Strategy and Emerging Business, IBM Software Group.
"This relationship with Amazon Web Services provides our customers with a
new way to use IBM software and broadens our distribution channels."

We are pleased to be working with IBM to extend this new model for
building and deploying applications to companies of all sizes," said
Terry Wise, Director of Business Development for Amazon Web Services.
"Extending IBM software to the cloud via Amazon EC2 will help even more
businesses take advantage of the benefits of the reliable, scalable and
cost efficient infrastructure in the cloud."

The new development AMIs can be accessed by visiting the new IBM Cloud
Space on developerWorks at www.ibm.com/developerworks/spaces/cloud or the
IBM section of the Featured Partners page at
http://aws.amazon.com/solutions/featured-partners/.

Contact:
Sean Tetpon
1-914-474-5508
stetpon@us.ibm.com

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