Jon Brodkin (Network World) has written about "Stream Computing" in Computer World on 14 May, 2009 . To quote:-
IBM is bringing "stream computing" to the IT industry with new software that the company says analyzes thousands of simultaneous data streams to provide insight that helps businesses solve their most challenging problems.
...stream computing takes a fundamentally different approach to business analytics by analyzing data in continuously updated streams of information from multiple sources, rather than static files pre-loaded into a data warehouse.