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BM is pushing a new set of provisioning technologies and lower-cost Linux-based blade servers to help IT managers deal with cost-cutting pressures and a desire to scale up processing for compute-intensive tasks on an as-needed basis.
At an "infrastructure simplification" briefing held in Somers, New York, Tuesday, IBM executives pointed out how more than 1,000 of its customers are using IBM technologies to more effectively provision processing-intensive applications from mainframes to clusters of Linux-based blade servers -- such as seismic calculations for petrochemical companies and derivatives calculations at Wall St. securities firms.
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