Tuesday, November 20, 2007

IBM unveils 'cloud computing' initiative; Virtualization hot; ITIL, IPv6 not

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IBM unveils 'cloud computing' initiative

Jon Brodkin By Jon Brodkin
IBM is bundling several of its technologies to help corporate data centers run large-scale Web applications in a 'cloud computing' model that's similar to the way major Internet players like Google operate. Read full story


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