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  • Grids halt hardware overspending - IBM

    IBM is moving to take the wraps off grid additions to its WebSphere server software that the company says will save customers money on underutilised hardware

  • 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.

  • 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 tries the lure of free grid access

    IBM is hoping to recruit developers by offering free access to high-powered grid computing servers over the Internet.

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  • 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.

  • Grid computing luring mainstream backers

    High-tech giants are nudging the grid computing into the business world. Is the obscure concept in your company's future?

  • Open source's next frontier

    Open-source software is starting to expand into the big-ticket infrastructure-software market dominated by Microsoft and others.

  • A question of utility

    Major vendors are pitching the idea of utility computing, where companies would plug into computing services as easily as turning on a tap or a power switch. But how realistic is that analogy, and what will it take to get there?

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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.

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