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IBM today announced that it will build an advanced datacenter in its Research Triangle Park, Raleigh, N.C., facility for $360 million. This will be the first datacenter to be built with the computer giant's New Enterprise Datacenter design principles. The New Enterprise Datacenter platform is a fusion of Google's Webcentric cloud approach and the MySpace approach, with an emphasis on data-intensive parallel programming. The datacenter will be one part of a hub for IBM's (NYSE: IBM) computing infrastructure in the cloud that clients will be able to access anytime from anywhere. The other part of the hub is IBM's datacenter in Tokyo, which is also being unveiled today. Data-intensive parallel computing "turned out to be a very key element of cloud computing applications we've seen deployed by Facebook, Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO), Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) and some folks in the telecommunications industry we've had discussions with," Dennis Quan, director of development, autonomic computing, with the IBM software group, told InternetNews.com. RELATED ARTICLES Can the Cloud Handle Enterprise IT? HP, Intel, Yahoo Team on Cloud Computing Labs HP Unveils New Blade, Cloud Computing Strategy EMC Gets Personal Shakeup at VMware, Shakeout Next? For... [ Read more on www.internetnews.com ]

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