GeneralIBM unveils web-like datacentre initiative

IBM has unveiled plans for "Blue Cloud," a series of cloud computing offerings that will allow corporate datacentres to operate more like the internet.

IBM has unveiled plans for "Blue Cloud," a series of cloud computing offerings that will allow corporate datacentres to operate more like the internet. The idea is that datacentres will enable computing across a distributed, globally accessible fabric of resources, rather than on local machines or remote server farms, said IBM. Blue Cloud is built on open standards and open source software supported by IBM software, systems technology and services. IBM is currently collaborating on cloud computing initiatives with select corporations, universities, internet-based enterprises and government agencies, including the Vietnamese Ministry of Science and Technology, which this week announced a cloud computing project with IBM. IBM's first Blue Cloud offerings are expected to be available to customers in the spring of 2008, supporting systems with IBM Power and generic x86 processors. At an event in Shanghai this week, IBM demonstrated how cloud computing technologies, running on IBM BladeCenters... [ Read more on www.computerweekly.com ]

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