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  • IBM inks grid computing deals

    IBM, one of the loudest advocates of pooling computing resources with grid technology, has secured a half-dozen new customers.

  • Firms tiptoe into utility computing

    Potential customers for utility computing are wary of sharing information technology resources and worry about the financial viability of service providers, research firm IDC said Thursday.

  • What's in store for 2004?

    It's like that old joke: two IT industry analysts, three opinions. We take a look at what the top technology watchers are predicting will change your IT world in the year to come.

  • 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.

  • Grid computing 'overhyped'

    A leading figure in the European grid research community has criticised the technology industry for exaggerating the current capabilities of their grid computing products.

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  • Virtual infrastructure, at your servers

    Thin clients, make way for a new competitor: hosted, virtual servers and desktops are finally changing the way corporate Australia manages its IT infrastructure.

  • 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?

  • Fiorina: Grid computing overhyped

    The grid idea seems to have sped through all the phases of a new technology's life cycle at OracleWorld, inspiring breathless exuberance and sober reassessment in just four days.

  • McNealy touts 'excitement' of backup tape

    Sun CEO defends StorageTek acquisition and adds open source to his usual hit list of Microsoft and IBM.

  • What on earth are grids anyway?

    What exactly is grid computing? Here are answers to everything you wanted to know about the technology but were afraid to ask.

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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.

  • Autonomic transmission

    In an industry that loves buzzwords, autonomic computing continues to attract attention. Can the promise of self-managing IT systems ever be met, and how will businesses change if that happens?

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