Big Blue Breaks Out Gear to Seed Cloud Computing

Touting its long history of supercomputing and grid computing expertise and citing the “extreme scale” potential of highly distributed processing, IBM is unveiling a series of cloud computing offerings based on open standards and open source software. Called “Blue Cloud,” a reference to IBM’s “Big Blue” nickname, the initiative will help enterprises distribute computing across a “globally accessible fabric of resources” instead of merely on local machines or server farms, said the company.