Having jumped into the world of Linux with a $1 billion commitment this year, IBM is now about to make a foray into what it thinks will be the next big direction in IT: grid computing. The idea, to ...

Claiming grid technology continues to expand outside its traditional scientific and research markets, IBM on Friday is announcing that several grid-based commercial projects built on IBM platforms ...

As the promise and possibilities of grid computing continue to unfold for business, research and science, fledgling users of the technology will now have a new partner to help them get started. IBM ...

IBM continues to expand its support for corporate adoption of grid computing, announcing on Monday new grid offerings, additional software partners and an alliance with Cisco to give users access to ...

Grid and Grow Express is latest IBM effort to make it more attractive for SMBs to do business with the company IBM’s latest round of software aimed at SMBs includes a bundle of hardware, software, and ...

IBM's IT services business, which accounted for nearly 45 percent of the company's $81.2 billion in revenue last year, is selling five packages of consulting services to help businesses determine the ...

An Energy Department laboratory in Berkeley, Calif., is joining with IBM Corp. to develop a high-performance computing grid for research in global climate change and other areas that use large data ...

Dubbed the World Community Grid, the distributed computing-style project would split complex computing chores into millions of pieces, then parse them out to idle personal computers for the heavy ...

Grid computing is a way to share computing resources within and among organizations. The concept first emerged in the mid-1990s as academic researchers began exploring the rudiments of grid ...

IBM last week launched a grid-computing package for actuaries in life insurance companies that lets them perform analysis faster and more cost-effectively. The IBM Grid and Grow for Actuarial Analysis ...

The group, called SURA, has a strong North Carolina connection, with much of the administrative work being done at North Carolina State University, according to an IBM spokesperson. The University of ...