The two companies will collaborate on developing joint Autonomic Computing solutions, and on a range of marketing, sales, and educational programs designed to accelerate the adoption of their technologies. In addition, Ejasent will have access to IBM's Autonomic Computing development resources and evolving standards.

According to IBM, Autonomic Computing embraces the development of intelligent, open systems capable of managing themselves, adapting to varying circumstances in alignment with business policies and objectives, and preparing their resources to most efficiently handle workloads. Autonomic Computing is a core component of IBM's E-Business On Demand strategy.

"The policy-based application management and application usage data mediation capabilities of Ejasent's products strongly support IBM's efforts to improve application availability and server utilization, and create self-managing data centers," said Jason Donahue, President and CEO of Ejasent. "We believe that Ejasent can help IBM achieve its vision of Autonomic Computing and provide key elements to complete Autonomic Computing solutions for large enterprises and IT services providers," added Mr. Donahue.