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Article: IBM to Deliver Computing Power Under 'Blue Cloud'; IBM bases its first commercial cloud computing offering on BladeCenter servers and Linux.
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- eWeek
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- November 15, 2007
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IBM plans to deliver on-demand computing capacity to customers from data center resources built up in the cloud.
The Armonk, N.Y., company is announcing Nov. 15 a new initiative called "Blue Cloud," which marks the first time IBM will deliver a commercial cloud computing offering. This first offering will use a combination of hardware and software designed to deliver more computing power from the data center based on customer demand.
The first of these offerings, which builds on the collaborative efforts IBM and Google announced in October for universities and other academic institutions, will come to the market in the first half of 2008. It will use IBM BladeCenter servers, a Linux ...