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 ...

IBM plans to unwrap a bundle of software, hardware and services called Grid and Grow at the LinuxWorld show in San Francisco on Monday. The company hopes the bundle will act as a starter pack for ...

IBM last week announced an initiative to expand its grid computing offerings from its traditional niche in academia and research to commercial enterprises. Under the plan, IBM will deliver 10 separate ...

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 ...

IBM announced the first application vendors — SAS Institute and Absoft — to support its Grid and Grow bundle of software, hardware, and services Tuesday. Big Blue first unveiled the bundle two months ...

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 ...