Grid Computing News : IBM Brings Its 'Blue Cloud' to The Enterprise

IBM on Thursday announced "Blue Cloud," a combination of software and hardware components that will let enterprise customers experiment with the "cloud" computing model that's largely responsible for the growth and popularity of Web 2.0 heavyweights Google and Amazon.com. Dennis Quan, CTO of High Performance on Demand Solutions for IBM's software group, said Blue Cloud will be based on open standards and open-source software supported by IBM virtualization and datacenter management software. "I think this initiative gets to the point that we're solving our customers' pain points," Quan said in an interview with InternetNews.com . "The proliferation of content, particularly rich media like video, is contributing to the need for more compute power. Blue Cloud essentially takes this same cloud computing model to the enterprise, giving companies the ability to establish their own cloud computing architecture to handle the enormous data-processing power required for video, social-networking and other Web 2.0 technologies.... read more