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  • On-demand computing: What are the odds?

    For those of you who missed the big proclamation, IBM is betting US$10 billion that customers will turn to Big Blue to deliver computing resources the way a power utility doles out electricity.

  • IBM retools software for utility push

    IBM will fill in key pieces of its "on-demand" computing initiative--in which it will sell computing resources as if they were utilities like electricity or telephone service--with upgraded server software which will be available in Australia in late-first quarter or early-second quarter this year.

  • IBM's Bullock: Straight to the source

    IBM Managing Director and CEO Philip Bullock takes the hot seat to field questions regarding Web services, Grid computing, and where IBM Australia is headed.

  • Java pros sign up for virtual bot battle

    More than 120,000 developers have already signed up for a Java coding competition which will see the finalist's virtual robots battle it out in August.

  • Web services: Beyond the hype

    He still has a tough sell ahead but IBM's Bob Sutor has already collaborated with Microsoft and others to fashion the underlying plumbing necessary to turn his vision of Web services into reality.

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  • Cranking up corporate clock speeds

    Concepts such as utility computing, Web services and business process management shouldn't be considered in isolation but rather as components of the real-time enterprise (RTE).

  • IBM's Bullock: Straight to the source

    IBM Managing Director and CEO Philip Bullock takes the hot seat to field questions regarding Web services, Grid computing, and where IBM Australia is headed.

  • Web services: Beyond the hype

    He still has a tough sell ahead but IBM's Bob Sutor has already collaborated with Microsoft and others to fashion the underlying plumbing necessary to turn his vision of Web services into reality.

  • Oracle ships grid software

    Oracle claims its Application Server 10g is the first to be able to take advantage of clusters of commodity hardware, an architecture that could make data centres far cheaper to run.

  • Microsoft teams on Web services spec

    Microsoft, BEA Systems and Tibco Software on Wednesday published a specification designed to communicate events between Web services.

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  • IBM's big thinker

    Executive Irving Wladawsky-Berger helped steer Big Blue to the Internet, Linux and open-source computing. His newest mission: grid computing.

  • iSeries rises to conflicting demands

    IBM's iSeries will never be IBM's most exciting range of servers, but it is destined for great things, according to one of its architects.

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