[ Thanks to Matt for
this link. ]
“IBM is pushing a new set of provisioning technologies and
lower-cost Linux-based blade servers to help IT managers deal with
cost-cutting pressures and a desire to scale up processing for
compute-intensive tasks on an as-needed basis.“At an ‘infrastructure simplification’ briefing held here
[Wednesday], IBM executives pointed out how more than 1,000 of its
customers are using IBM technologies to more effectively provision
processing-intensive applications from mainframes to clusters of
Linux-based blade servers — such as seismic calculations for
petrochemical companies and derivatives calculations at Wall St.
securities firms…”