Businesses increasingly require shorter time frames to acquire additional computing capacity in order to meet today's competitive demands.

This can be attained through leasing capacity, but unfortunately traditional leasing terms lack the flexibility, manageability and responsiveness needed to support today's market. In "IBM Computing On Demand Uses Clouds to Increase Business Productivity" learn how Exa Corp., a leading simulation software company, was able to scale up computing capacity over one weekend to meet its client's needs without a major investment in hardware or time.

Using existing Computing on Demand technologies from IBM, businesses can gain access to securely as much or as little additional computing capacity they need with minimal turnaround time. This reduces the time to select and provision resources, but also only pay for the additional computing capacity that they actually use. Ultimately, the flexible cloud-based approach to procurement lets businesses, both large and small, be more productive while responding to business needs on short notice.