OREANDA-NEWS. September 19, 2014. Specialists of MERLION Engineering Technical Center with support of IBM consultants have launched at the premises of MERLION Migration Centre a platform for development and control of IBM WorkLight applications based on IBM PowerLinux.

The combination of IBM Worklight platform for creation of mobile business solutions with the IBM PowerLinux hardware platform, which gives mobile applications higher performance, reliability and economical efficiency, constitutes a full-featured complex solution for development and provision of modern mobile services. For users it means stable operation of applications and for creators of the latter this means the simplicity of launching of new services, implementation of updates and manageability of launched applications.

As a result MERLION's partners will get an affordable online-resource for research of the newest development environment and creation of their own mobile solutions. The remote access to WorkLight allows the partners to avoid investments in the development environment, to rapidly start working with new products and to garner a comprehensive support of the MERLION Engineering Technical Center.

According to Gartner, IBM is the world leader in the area of platforms for mobile application development.

It is worth to mention that the explosive growth in the number of users is a characteristic tendency of mobile solution development and that requires the infrastructure to be reliable, high-performance and scalable. All this gives undeniable advantages to the IBM PowerLinux platform being the most suitable hardware base of modern mobile services.

Performance: according to the research carried out by the IBM specialists, processing of 1TB of data takes a PowerLinux-based computing system two times less time than when using the standard x86 solution.

Reliability: there are significantly less failures compared with alternative systems due to the increased focus of the vendor on optimization of the application program software. Furthermore, the Light PathDiagnostics and Processor Instruction Retry technologies are provided for diagnostics of the system and particularly processors.

MERLION Migration Centre provides the partners free of charge with IBM Power Systems equipment for development, porting and optimization of their solutions, also it renders consultative and practical assistance to the partners in migration of their solutions. The program gives many commercial advantages which can be used by the partners who implement their solutions on the basis of the IBM PowerLinux platform. They also will receive extensive marketing support for promotion of these solutions.