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...entire system--with the hardware often located far from the customer--as a utility that corporations can buy "just like they buy electricity," as Palmisano has said. Instead of having to make a costly bet on an army of new servers and software, companies like American Express can ramp their computing power up or down as market conditions dictate. "There's a lot less risk for the customer if they can work their way up and see the benefits as they go," says Bob Zapfel, head of IBM Services for the Americas...
...British media speculated Tuesday that Blair's certainty may derive from intelligence that had been shared with the inspection team, which is moving to ramp up its operations through the use of helicopters, spy-planes and by moving to question Iraqi scientists abroad. Blix flies to Baghdad on Sunday for a meeting with Iraqi leaders, where he will demand that Iraq answer specific questions on the gaps in its December declaration. So, even though Iraq appears to have passed the first hurdle, the UN weapons inspectors are clearly moving to raise the pressure on Baghdad by setting it tougher tests...
...more dependent we become on the Internet, the more damage can be done by taking down large portions of it. And it doesn't take a criminal genius to realize that PC users, with their increasingly high-speed connections and low-grade security setups, are the easiest on-ramp for any kind of attack...
While the names were read, family members descended the ramp to the floor of Ground Zero for the first time, where they congregated around and laid flowers in a “circle of honor” at the center...
They walked, crutched and wheeled their way down the ramp to the bottom...