IBM bundles up cloud initiatives by Maxwell Cooter, Techworld

Tuesday, October 7, 2008  //  0 Comments  //  Blog, Cloud Computing

IBM bundles up cloud initiatives | InfoWorld | News | 2008-10-06 | By Maxwell Cooter, Techworld

Big Blue opens up the beta for Bluehouse, its so-called Facebook for the enterprise, and bundles Sametime Unyte as part of the new cloud initiative.

IBM has joined the companies jostling for position in the cloud computing space. The company has announced a variety of offerings that it claimed would allow users to better manager data and make collaboration easier.

The company has opened up the beta for Bluehouse, the company’s so-called Facebook for the enterprise. The software has been available in closed beta for the past nine months but is now being made available to anyone. The company said that Bluehouse would combine social networking and online collaboration tools to help organizations to share documents, contacts, engage in joint project activities, host online meetings, and build social networking communities through a Web browser.