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The world's largest technology company has very publicly committed itself to an on-demand computing strategy. Customers have been promised a new era of flexible and accountable IT services - but are they really being offered anything more than a clever leasing scheme? Continuing our series of interviews with the major providers of Utility Computing, we speak with IBM's Dev Mukherjee, Vice-President of Strategy & Marketing to find out more.
Also, of course, we've sifted through the sector's deals for this week and brought you a round-up of the ones that matter most.
Editor, Michael Lee - Michael@UtilComp.com
The IBM Utility Computing Mantra: "It's all about business"
Utility Computing has very little to do with technology if you get it right, claims IBM's Vice-President of Strategy & Marketing, Dev Mukherjee. Instead it is a fundamental "business transformation" - and an exciting one at that. UC investigates.
[2003/4/24 UC Newsdesk]
Apptix adds on-demand Microsoft's Windows SharePoint Services
Apptix announced the launch of an on-demand service over the net for Microsoft's Windows SharePoint Services. Using Apptix's hosted solution, users, service providers and resellers will be able to quickly and easily deploy Windows SharePoint Services. This next-generation solution for Web-based file sharing and team collaboration is currently in Beta 2 and will be available in mid-2003.
[2003/4/22 UC Newsdesk]
MIT Press Classics back in print with HP's Print-on-demand
HP announced that technology developed by HP Labs is enabling MIT Press to restore 1,750 out-of-print titles for inclusion in the Press' new print-on-demand program, called the MIT Classics Series.
[2003/4/22 UC Newsdesk]
General Dynamics Electric Boat to use On Demand Services from IBM
IBM announced that is has been awarded a multi-year contract by General Dynamics Electric Boat to build the shipbuilding industry's first Internet-based supply chain network. IBM will provide on demand computing infrastructure to automate Electric Boat's supply chain, linking together partners, suppliers and other shipyards in a single integrated organization to help the company accelerate the building of submarines for the U.S. Navy.
[2003/4/21 UC Newsdesk]
IBM Challenges Storage Industry
IBM Vice President Michael Zisman challenged the storage industry in his keynote at Storage Networking World to work together to accelerate the delivery of enterprise-ready virtualization solutions as a key step in the evolution of the industry.
[2003/4/17 UC Newsdesk]
United Devices Expands Into European Market With Additional Key Customer
United Devices, a provider of secure grid solutions, announced that the company has secured Sanofi-Synthelabo as a key life science customer and has also established a UK-based office in order to meet growing European demand for its Enterprise MetaProcessor platform.
[2003/4/16 UC Newsdesk]
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