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Opinion: By using its expertise in backing the World Community Grid project, IBM also gets the chance to demonstrate the benefits of grid computing.
There are plenty of IT decision makers who are trying to understand how utility computing works and what it could mean for their organizations so that they can choose.
eWEEK Technology Editor Peter Coffee examines why there's less division than there once was between high-performance and data center computing.
Enterprises eager to squeeze more mileage out of per-gigabit storage investments can soon start taking advantage of virtual volume management and cloning capabilities.
HP enhances its Agility Assessment Service to help businesses measure how their ability to deal with change compares with those in their verticals.
Integration of features such as 10 Gigabit Ethernet switches and SAN/NAS support will allow companies to create entire network infrastructures within each server blade enclosure.
At the SC2004 supercomputing show, Dell, HP and Sun are unveiling bundles to ease HPC management.
Pioneering IT executives say they are implementing utility computing when it enables them to solve pressing business needs and where it makes economic sense.
Opinion: As business computing moves toward pay-as-you-go and SOA models, enterprises may find themselves locked in with a single service provider who combines products from any number of players.
Big Blue blew away closest competitor Oracle in a recent survey on financial institutions' favorite grid provider. But the confusing, conflicting definitions of what constitutes "grid" make the comparison one of apples to oranges, experts say.
Q&A: Bob Picciano, vice president of database technology at IBM's Toronto lab, says the company continues to pummel main database rival Oracle in terms of price and scalability.
As IT managers and developers work to deploy enterprise applications and Web services, IBM and Microsoft are sniping over platform supremacy studies.