IBM has raised the possibility that the mainframe of the future might well be a cloud. This is likely to have considerable long-term implications for vendors and IT departments alike. On 11 November 2008, IBM announced its Blue Cloud program to offer a cluster-computing cloud infrastructure for sale in the spring of 2008, based on a mixture of open source and proprietary software and powered by a BladeCenter-based data center using x86 and Power processors.
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Brian J. Dooley is an author, analyst, and journalist with more than 30 years' experience in analyzing and writing about IT trends. Mr. Dooley has written seven books, numerous user manuals, hundreds of reports, and more than 2,000 magazine features. He is the founder and past President of the New Zealand Chapter of the Society for Technical Communication and initiated the Graduate Certificate in Technical Communication program at Christchurch… Read More
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