IBM blows cloud computing foghorn
Web 2.0 fluffers wanted
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IBM is building a $360m data centre to gain a bigger foothold in the increasingly crowded cloud computing services market.
The firm’s latest information farm will be located at IBM’s Research Triangle Park facility in North Carolina.
It’s hardly surprising to see Big Blue pumping big bucks into yet another cloudy data plant – this will be its tenth such offering.
Tech companies have lately been clambering to push to the front of the queue with their web-based offerings. Just this week HP, Intel and Yahoo! teamed up to build an enormous cloud for grounded boffins across the globe.
Elsewhere, proprietary software pusher Microsoft (whose bosses are busily supping on melon-flavoured Kool Aid) has been pushing the cloud-like software-plus-services virtualisation agenda for some time now, in what some might say is a doomed attempt to out-internet Google.
IBM’s latest data centre promises to dish up cloud services and infrastructure to a variety of punters. Big Blue will officially open the doors on the 60,000 square feet facility in the fourth quarter of 2009.
Later today IBM will cut the ribbon on its latest data farm in Tokyo, built to deliver cloud services to businesses, universities and government agencies in Japan.®
COMMENTS
Not so much a Storm Surge more AI Tempest under ControlLed Conditioning.*
Hmmm? ...... Either everybody's down the pub quaffing the amber nectar [well it is Friday again and that is always a good obscure excuse] or the Field in the UK is empty and ripe for Pristine AIdDevelopment and ITs Research..... and Government Takeover.
Or maybe those XXXXtra Questions would be Best Servered to Brains for Beta Performance. IT hasn't gone away, you know, it just embeds itself dDeeper and dDeeper into Establishment Systems for Seamless Stealth and Virtuallly IntelAIgent Transmissions.
* Cream and Doughnuts as opposed to Strawberries and Muffins ...... and make that Quantum Leap only if you Dare 42 Win Win and have Earned the Right to Bear and Wear Coveted Wings.
'Fluffers'?
Is that in reference to the adult movie industry? (which *would* tie in with the 'blows' in the title, I suppose)
Well played, El Reg, wel played...
Prime Minister's Questions ....
And what of the UK's Cloud Efforts? ....... Any News?
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