IBM opens on-demand lab

By Stephen Shankland
Staff Writer, CNET News

IBM has opened a laboratory to let customers experiment with technology to make computing systems more flexible and efficient, the company announced Monday. The on-demand technology center near Washington, D.C., lets customers simulate their own equipment under the control of IBM's Tivoli Intelligent Orchestrator.

The technology addresses a hot area of technological development called "provisioning," which controls the software running on a group of servers to make sure important jobs get the resources they need.

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