Technology giant IBM has unveiled its plans for data centre products which link up servers via a wireless 'computing cloud'.

Named Blue Cloud, the product range is still in development, but the firm known as Big Blue is aiming to increase access to these secure systems while boosting their efficiency.

Using both open source and in-house technology, IBM plans to link data centre systems intelligently so that tasks can be split up to different computers to speed up their completion.

Although similar 'cloud computing' measures are being worked on by the likes of Microsoft, IBM suggests that it is bringing some "special sauce" to the table by creating a cloud system that can "self-manage and self-heal itself".

If successful, this means that the data centre will be able to allocate computing power and resources on-the-fly to ensure the greatest efficiency without human input.

This follows IBM's pledge to work with Google to bring this technology to the academic sector, as the firm believes it could benefit projects dealing with large amounts of data, such as scientific research or disaster planning.