IBM's Blue Cloud
IBM's new "Blue Cloud" offering includes both hardware and software that will enable businesses,governments and researchers to do things with computing they never imagined possible. Cloud computing can run new web applications with the efficiency and power of pools of computer systems or "clouds" that are linked together online. The Cloud receives requests like--online commerce, videos, maps, GPS-- it parcels data into little chunks to be processed simultaneously by hundreds or thousands of computers. This cluster of computers is linked together to run without human intervention delivering data-intensive results in a flash.
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