IBM Press room - 2007-11-15 IBM Introduces Ready-to-Use Cloud Computing - United States

IBM Press room - 2007-11-15 IBM Introduces Ready-to-Use Cloud Computing - United States: "Armonk, N.Y. and Shanghai, China - 15 Nov 2007: In Shanghai today, IBM unveiled plans for “Blue Cloud,” a series of cloud computing offerings that will allow corporate data centers to operate more like the Internet by enabling computing across a distributed, globally accessible fabric of resources, rather than on local machines or remote server farms."

IBM developerWorks : High Performance On Demand Solutions

IBM developerWorks : High Performance On Demand Solutions: "Welcome! This page provides resources to help you plan, design, and build real-world on demand solutions. The HiPODS team is a group of specialists within IBM's Software Strategy group, with seven locations around the world. Our skills represent a cross-section of IBM from the Software, Research, Global Services, and System and Technology divisions. We work to solve customer problems by innovating and collaborating with leading edge IBM customers.

The HiPODS team delivers first-of-a-kind, end-to-end integrated solutions that span IBM software and hardware brands to deliver a unified solution for our customers. HiPODS has worked with a wide range of businesses, such as eBay�, Google™, New York Stock Exchange, China Telecom, Sprint�, the Vietnam Ministry of Science and Technology, and more.

Some of our current project areas include:

• Cloud Computing

  Develop and deliver process-driven virtualized infrastructure solutions. Values to customers include:

  • Reducing IT management complexity and skill requirements
  • Sharing resources among multiple applications
  • Accelerating application launches
  • Supporting both existing and emerging, data-intensive workloads

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The IBM-Google connection | Outside the Lines - CNET News.com

The IBM-Google connection | Outside the Lines - CNET News.com: "LOS ANGELES--Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt gave a speech and chatted with IBM's CEO Sam Palmisano onstage Thursday at IBM's Business Partner Leadership Conference here. The two talked up their relationship, which primarily involves a joint research project. In October, Google and IBM announced a cloud computing initiative, based on Google's expertise in distributed, parallel computing and IBM's industrial enterprise management technologies, for public use by universities.

IBM is taking some of the learnings from the project and plans to operate a cloud that will allow partners to house their Web-based applications and sell them to customers, Palmisano said. 'It is the first time we have taken something from the consumer arena and applied it to the enterprise,' he said."

Zoho Blogs � IBM, Microsoft & Google Eras of Computing

Zoho Blogs � IBM, Microsoft & Google Eras of Computing: "By now it is conventional wisdom to say that there was an IBM Era of computing, then a Microsoft Era, and now we are in the Google Era. In this post, I will explain why Microsoft was not the “next IBM” and why Google is not the “next Microsoft” - there are significant qualitative differences among them, quite apart from their status as the dominant, era-defining players. Understanding that qualitative difference is crucial for third party vendors like Zoho to thrive. I was reminded of this because of the IBM/Google partnership unveiled today (via Dan Farber & see also Nick Carr). As an aside, I have coined a kind of Moore’s Law on these computing eras:"

Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Is Office the new Netscape?

Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Is Office the new Netscape?: "As Microsoft and Yahoo continue with their interminable modern-dress staging of Hamlet - it's longer than Branagh's version! - the transformation of the software business goes on. We have new players with new strategies, or at least interesting new takes on old strategies.

One of the cornerstones of Microsoft's competitive strategy over the years has been to redefine competitors' products as features of its own products. Whenever some upstart PC software company started to get traction with a new application - the Netscape browser is the most famous example - Microsoft would incorporate a version of the application into its Office suite or Windows operating system, eroding the market for the application as a standalone product and starving its rival of economic oxygen (ie, cash). It was an effective strategy as well as a controversial one.

Now, though, the tables may be turning. Google is trying to pull a Microsoft on Microsoft by redefining core personal-productivity applications - calendars. word processing, spreadsheets, etc. - as features embedded in other products. There's a twist, though. Rather than just incorporating the applications as features in its own products, Google is offering them up to other companies, particularly big IT vendors, to incorporate as features in their products."