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Expanding its cloud computing initiative, IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that it is leading a joint research initiative of 13 European partners to develop technologies that help automate the fluctuating demand for IT resources in a cloud computing environment.

The 17M Euro EU-funded initiative, called RESERVOIR — Resources and Services Virtualization without Barriers — will explore the deployment and management of IT services across different administrative domains, IT platforms and geographies. This cloud computing project aims to develop technologies to support a service-based online economy, where resources and services are transparently provisioned and managed.

Cloud computing is an emerging approach to shared infrastructure in which large pools of systems are linked together to provide IT services. The need for such environments is fueled by dramatic growth in connected devices, real-time data streams, and the adoption of service oriented architectures and Web 2.0 applications, such as mashups, open collaboration, social networking and mobile commerce. Continuing advances in the performance of digital components has resulted in a massive increase in the scale of IT environments, driving the need to manage them as a unified cloud.

Very cool, this article talks about IBM taking part in an initiative to develop technologies using cloud computing. I’ll need to read up more about it, but it does look very interesting, the more we can develop the best practices, the technologies and ‘the way we do things’ the better. The thought that one day my application can be independent from the infrastructure, that I can purchase/request capacity on demand in line with my needs at that point in time, could be a very freeing experience for my business. I need 4000 nodes for 3hrs so I can complete the batch in time – great, request the capacity, plug it in, next. On-demand infrastructure, grid/hpc in it’s truest form.

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