Press Release: “ZSL Unveils ‘PowerCube’ DaaS in the U.S., Africa and India”

Posted on January 23, 2010 by Bob Sutor

I’m a little tardy in noting this, but this last week at Lotusphere, IBM partner ZSL issued the following press release, which begins:

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Lotusphere, Florida (PRWEB) January 19, 2010

ZSL, a leading ISV & Global Software Solutions and Services provider, today launched “PowerCube” DaaS (Desktop as a Service), an open source-based desktop collaborative solution with supporting ZSL consulting practice. Available today in the U.S., Africa, and India, “PowerCube” will help mid-market customers using proprietary platforms to migrate to the IBM Client for Smart Work on Ubuntu’s operating system.

Intended for PCs, laptops, netbooks and thin clients as an alternative to commercial desktops and platforms, the ZSL “PowerCube” solution includes packaged services for migrating to the IBM Client for Smart Work, from user segmentation, TCO analysis, BPM based role identification and SOA, to application migration, pilot and production deployment. The DaaS capabilities provide customers with the option of using virtual desktops based on VERDE from Virtual Bridges on a private cloud managed by ZSL or on customer premise.

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(I added most of the links in the text.)

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One Response to Press Release: “ZSL Unveils ‘PowerCube’ DaaS in the U.S., Africa and India”

  1. Chris Ward says:
    January 24, 2010 at 7:15 am

    This all feels like ‘backwash’ from the end of IBM’s Personal Computer and OS/2 businesses.

    It’s not that Personal Computers and Operating Systems for Personal Computers have disappeared as business requisites; quite the contrary, they are still very much in use.

    But there’s a splitting, a huge variety arising now that IBM no longer markets the core items, no longer has anything significant to say about standards and features because of not investing in development, manufacturing, or distribution.

    Is it going to be rather like what happened on IBM’s exit from the card-punch business http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punched_card#IBM_punched_card_manufacturing ? The business flourished for a while under other ownership; but nobody manufactures punch-cards on a commercial scale nowadays.

    And if so, what will replace the PC and OS/2 as the ‘business sought-after’ items ? Games consoles, cellphones, infrastructure servers, and broadband network connectivity are all candidates to provide gainful employment the next generation of development engineers and marketing professionals ; as the next ‘speed and direction of little green pieces of paper’ profit-generating hurricane.

    But I suspect the hurricane of the last 25 years may be blowing itself out.

    Are we ready for the consequences ?