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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?"

3 of 511 comments (clear)

  1. Microsoft's Plan for Palladium? by EverlastingPhelps · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Maybe this is the plan for Palladium... set up a "trusted" system and then use your Passport account to charge you by the bit.

  2. you mean? by rczyzewski · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I may have to start paying for my porn!!!

  3. think about it by pizza_milkshake · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    how much bandwidth could /. save if only they used scientific notation for dollar amount in the billions range and higher...