by M. Naghshineh,
R. Ratnaparkhi,
D. Dillenberger,
J. R. Doran,
C. Dorai,
L. Anderson,
G. Pacifici,
J. L. Snowdon,
A. Azagury,
M. VanderWiele,
and Y. Wolfsthal
Cloud computing represents the latest phase in the evolution of
Internet-based computing. In this paper, we describe the
fundamental building blocks of cloud computing and the initiative
undertaken by the IBM Research Division in this area, which
includes work on Internet-scale data centers, virtualization,
scalable storage, and cloud computing services. The focus of this
project has been the Research Compute Cloud, an environment for
cloud computing research that is also used as a computing resource
by various groups in the IBM Research Division.
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