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“IBM last week took the wraps off a technology developed by its research labs that it believes will raise the threshold for analysis of massive amounts of data in real time.
Under development for six years through the IBM Research organization, System S is designed for what the company calls “perpetual analytics.”
According to IBM, System S [...]

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IB now now offers Amazon AMI instances of some of its software. The hourly prices for Amazon EC2 running IBM are as follows:

Amazon EC2 running IBM DB2 Express - starting at $0.38/hour
Amazon EC2 running IBM DB2 Workgroup - starting at $1.31/hour
Amazon EC2 running IBM Informix Dynamic Server Express - starting at $0.38/hour
Amazon EC2 running IBM [...]

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Sun Microsystems has given a definative vision on its cloud initiative and also launched its own public cloud, with statements that suggested that rather than being late, it was the right time to enter the market in a more aggressive way.
Sun not only laid out plans for offering cloud technologies and services the company was [...]

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IBM is piloting a “Tools as a Service” program that is making software development tools available in its hosted cloud. Initially the program is to be offered to a selection of university faculty and students.

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IBM has  partnered with Amazon to allow access of its software to SI’s using Amazon’s cloud computing applications. The partnerships enables pay-as-you-go access to development and production versions of IBM Information Management database servers, IBM Lotus content management, and IBM WebSphere portal and middleware products through Amazon’s EC2 cloud computing service. IBM is providing free Amazon [...]

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