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IBM Wants CPU Time To Be A Metered Utility

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the from-my-cold-dead-fingers dept.

kwertii writes "IBM CEO Samuel J. Palmisano announced a sweeping new business strategy yesterday, pledging $10,000,000,000 towards redefining computing as a metered utility. Corporate customers would have on-demand access to supercomputer-level resources, and would pay only for time actually used. The $10 billion is slated for acquisitions and research to put the supporting infrastructure in place. Will this model revolutionize the way companies compute, or is this plan doomed to be another PCjr?"

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  1. Another out of touch CEO by Performer+Guy · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Just take this as evidence of another guy at the head of a company who is completely out of touch with his business, and move along. Normally the moronic ideas like this get canned before the big guy opens his mouth. Either this one slipped through or IBM have lost the cluster of technically savvy peons who usually vet the pronouncements of the senior execs. What a frikin' moron, sell your IBM stock.

  2. Hello corporate spynet by spun · · Score: 3, Flamebait


    During the cold war, the CIA uses IBM to provide cover for operatives. IN exchange, IBM gets access to intelligence relating to competition.

    Fast forward to today. Dozens of high quality encryption schemes foil the CIA's spying. What to do? Their friends at IBM can help again: create a new paradigm that leaves IBM in charge of all corporate data security.
    </rant>

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