Touting its long history of supercomputing and grid computing expertise and citing the "extreme scale" potential of highly distributed processing, IBM is unveiling a series of cloud computing offerings based on open standards and open source software. Called "Blue Cloud," a reference to IBM's "Big Blue" nickname, the initiative will help enterprises distribute computing across a "globally accessible fabric of resources" instead of merely on local machines or server farms, said the company.
November 15th 2007