Grid Computing News : Startup Boosts Databases With Grid

xkoto Inc. has announced a new version of Gridscale, its flagship middleware application. Version 3.5 of Gridscale "enables commercial, off-the-shelf databases to run in a geographic grid with the same or better reliability and performance as much more expensive proprietary systems," the company says. "Unlike point products targeting data protection and replication at a departmental level, Gridscale 3.5 is a proven solution for ensuring data access, availability and protection across the enterprise, including at remote sites," xkoto Chief Strategy Officer Albert Lee said in a statement. Gridscale 3.5 includes support for IBM's DB2 version 9.5 and DB2 on Windows, recovery from backup, connection pooling auto alerts and a Web-based GUI.... read more

Grid Computing News : A New Wave of Utility Computing Acquisitions

The ever increasing complexity of the enterprise data center is challenging IT managers to come up with creative ways to manage the data center and do so while keeping the costs down. Simultaneously, many executives worry that current inflexibility of the IT infrastructure actually hamstrings corporate business strategy. Product development, product launches, channel development and other activities get delayed or even abandoned due to the difficulty and cost of modifying today's information technology infrastructure.... read more

Grid Computing News : The developing face of Utility Computing at HP

A fun time to be a tech-sector salesperson. It seems the answer is yes if you work for the Managed Services division of HP right now. Utility Computing speaks exclusively with Vice-President of Managed Services for HP, Joe Hogan.... read more

Grid Computing News : The IBM Utility Computing Mantra:

Utility Computing has very little to do with technology if you get it right, claims IBM's Vice-President of Strategy & Marketing, Dev Mukherjee. Instead it is a fundamental "business transformation" - and an exciting one at that. UC investigates.... read more

Grid Computing News : OpSource enables SaaS in Digiprise, Platte River Systems and Insights OnDemand

OpSource, a provider of solutions to enable Software as a Service (SaaS), announced it has added six new software company customers during June, and deploying three of those customers within one month: Digiprise, Platte River Systems and Insights OnDemand.... read more

Grid Computing News : Another milestone for Utility Computing?

In recent weeks, we have seen a second wave of vendors making major utility computing statements: Big names like Computer Associates, Unisys, Veritas and EMC have all announced their own variant of it. So is the landscape clearer now. Or is it just more crowded. Is the message to potential users unified or consolidated.... read more

Grid Computing News : Will the Real Utility Computing Model Please Stand Up

To the potential user of utility computing, one thing is clear: the vendors of utility computing are as confused as the users are. A bewildering array of terms currently jostles for position. On demand computing, adaptive computing and agility computing are just some. More important still, there is a danger that the true business benefit of utility computing will be obscured beneath the mere technical. In this, the first in a series of articles by Leif Eriksen, searches out the business definition of utility computing.... read more

Grid Computing News : Gartner and Forrester: Use of Web services skyrocketing

Two of the leading analyst firms that track IT trends -- Gartner Group and Forrester -- are predicting a massive uptick in the use of Web services, which greatly simplify the process of machine-to-machine communication between otherwise incompatible applications.... read more

Grid Computing News : Review: Autonomic Computing Report by Grid Technology Partners

According to Gartner VP, Bob Hayward, the global research firm sees utility computing as one of the key strategies for 2004. They expect the market to continue to mature and expand ��� especially as companies are moving towards a purchasing cycle. As that takes place, independent reports ��� such as the one reviewed here ��� will be a vital tool to help executives make the right choice.... read more

Grid Computing News : Why Utility Computing Will Succeed Where ASPs and Outsourcing Failed

In our last article (���Will the Real Utility Computing Model Please Stand Up���) we defined utility computing as the provision of IT-based functionality on demand. We argued that much of the marketing hype around utility computing misses the mark. IBM and other vendors hoping to benefit from the trend have done the concept a disservice by not being clear about their own definition and delivering very little in the way of working examples. As a consequence users are struggling to see the difference between utility computing and previous, failed attempts to reduce the cost and complexity of IT such as Application Service Providers (ASPs) and outsourcing. In today���s article, we will explain why utility computing will succeed where the others failed.... read more

Grid Computing News : New Grid Platform allows Linux applications on Microsoft Windows

United Devices, a provider of secure grid solutions, announced Grid MP 4.0, the company's newest grid technology platform with advanced features.... read more

Grid Computing News : IBM Brings Its 'Blue Cloud' to The Enterprise

IBM on Thursday announced "Blue Cloud," a combination of software and hardware components that will let enterprise customers experiment with the "cloud" computing model that's largely responsible for the growth and popularity of Web 2.0 heavyweights Google and Amazon.com. Dennis Quan, CTO of High Performance on Demand Solutions for IBM's software group, said Blue Cloud will be based on open standards and open-source software supported by IBM virtualization and datacenter management software. "I think this initiative gets to the point that we're solving our customers' pain points," Quan said in an interview with InternetNews.com . "The proliferation of content, particularly rich media like video, is contributing to the need for more compute power. Blue Cloud essentially takes this same cloud computing model to the enterprise, giving companies the ability to establish their own cloud computing architecture to handle the enormous data-processing power required for video, social-networking and other Web 2.0 technologies.... read more

Grid Computing News : Microsoft Takes An Interest In Gridbus

Microsoft and the Australian Research Council are funding work by the Gridbus Project on next-generation enterprise grids. Microsoft is contributing about $500,000 in cash and in-kind services to the .NET-based grid computing project, and the ARC is pitching in another $250,000. The Gridbus Project at the University of Melbourne is developing a .NET-based enterprise grid computing framework called Alchemi ( www.alchemi.net ) that simplifies the development and execution of applications in networked environments by aggregating the power of multiple desktop computers to form a virtual supercomputer that accelerates applications on the Windows platform. With help from ARC and Microsoft, the project, headed by Raj Buyya of the University of Melbourne, will further develop the .NET-based grid platform to allow rapid implementation of different parallel models and scheduling techniques. It also lacks the flexibility required for implementing various types of widely employed parallel models such as message passing and dataflows." The project "will revolutionize the computing field by enhancing the productivity of software engineering for enterprise applications and accelerate their execution on enterprise grids," he said.... read more

Grid Computing News : Hospital Goes Digital With Help From IBM Grid

Massachusetts-based HealthAlliance Hospital turned to IBM to make the most of its picture archiving and communication system (PACS). HealthAlliance Hospital, a member of UMass Memorial Health Care, installed a PACS from Siemens Medical Solutions so it can move toward digital health records while eliminating traditional paper and film. But making those digital records widely available took a little help from Big Blue. With IBM's Grid Medical Archive Solution (GMAS), the hospital can now make patient records available to clinicians anytime, anywhere. GMAS, a cross-IBM offering composed of storage, software, servers and services, gives hospitals, clinics, research institutions and pharmaceutical companies an automated and resilient enterprise storage archive for delivering medical images, patient records and other critical healthcare reference information on demand.... read more

Grid Computing News : Red Hat Goes Grid

For the last several years, Red Hat has been pushing forward the development of real-time enhancements for Linux. That changed today, with the announcement of the Red Hat MRG (Messaging, Real Time and Grid) platform. The product's real-time enhancements provide deterministic performance for the kernel that enables actions to occur within the same amount of time, every time — a feature critical for a number of industries, including telecommunications, the military, healthcare and financial services. But Red Hat MRG goes further, aiming to better appeal to enterprises by adding two more features to the mix: messaging and grid computing. "Red Hat sees a lot of synergies in combining real-time and grid technologies together," said Bryan Che, Red Hat product manager for MRG.... read more

Grid Computing News : Platform Speeds Up Symphony

Platform Computing has given its financial services software a performance boost. Platform Symphony 4 is "five to 10 times faster than alternative environments," the company says. The grid-based software boosts application performance for financial services companies, giving them a quick and easy way to build high-performance computing environments for compute- and data-intensive financial applications. Symphony's grid computing environment supports key financial services processes such as intraday risk calculations, pre-trade pricing and end-of-day value at risk calculations. Through our product and community activities, Platform is committed to making it as easy as possible for companies to build and deploy models for the grid." Platform Symphony 4 will be available in January, while the developer edition is already available at my.platform.com/symphonyde .... read more

Grid Computing News : Microsoft Takes An Interest In Gridbus

Microsoft and the Australian Research Council are funding work by the Gridbus Project on next-generation enterprise grids. Microsoft is contributing about $500,000 in cash and in-kind services to the .NET-based grid computing project, and the ARC is pitching in another $250,000. The Gridbus Project at the University of Melbourne is developing a .NET-based enterprise grid computing framework called Alchemi ( www.alchemi.net ) that simplifies the development and execution of applications in networked environments by aggregating the power of multiple desktop computers to form a virtual supercomputer that accelerates applications on the Windows platform. With help from ARC and Microsoft, the project, headed by Raj Buyya of the University of Melbourne, will further develop the .NET-based grid platform to allow rapid implementation of different parallel models and scheduling techniques. It also lacks the flexibility required for implementing various types of widely employed parallel models such as message passing and dataflows."
The project "will revolutionize the computing field by enhancing the productivity of software engineering for enterprise applications and accelerate their execution on enterprise grids," he said.... read more

Grid Computing News : Hospital Goes Digital With Help From IBM Grid

Massachusetts-based HealthAlliance Hospital turned to IBM to make the most of its picture archiving and communication system (PACS). HealthAlliance Hospital, a member of UMass Memorial Health Care, installed a PACS from Siemens Medical Solutions so it can move toward digital health records while eliminating traditional paper and film. But making those digital records widely available took a little help from Big Blue. With IBM's Grid Medical Archive Solution (GMAS), the hospital can now make patient records available to clinicians anytime, anywhere. GMAS, a cross-IBM offering composed of storage, software, servers and services, gives hospitals, clinics, research institutions and pharmaceutical companies an automated and resilient enterprise storage archive for delivering medical images, patient records and other critical healthcare reference information on demand.... read more

Grid Computing News : Red Hat Goes Grid

For the last several years, Red Hat has been pushing forward the development of real-time enhancements for Linux. That changed today, with the announcement of the Red Hat MRG (Messaging, Real Time and Grid) platform. The product's real-time enhancements provide deterministic performance for the kernel that enables actions to occur within the same amount of time, every time — a feature critical for a number of industries, including telecommunications, the military, healthcare and financial services. But Red Hat MRG goes further, aiming to better appeal to enterprises by adding two more features to the mix: messaging and grid computing. "Red Hat sees a lot of synergies in combining real-time and grid technologies together," said Bryan Che, Red Hat product manager for MRG.... read more

Grid Computing News : Platform Speeds Up Symphony

Platform Computing has given its financial services software a performance boost. Platform Symphony 4 is "five to 10 times faster than alternative environments," the company says. The grid-based software boosts application performance for financial services companies, giving them a quick and easy way to build high-performance computing environments for compute- and data-intensive financial applications. Symphony's grid computing environment supports key financial services processes such as intraday risk calculations, pre-trade pricing and end-of-day value at risk calculations. Through our product and community activities, Platform is committed to making it as easy as possible for companies to build and deploy models for the grid."
Platform Symphony 4 will be available in January, while the developer edition is already available at my.platform.com/symphonyde .... read more

Grid Computing News : Hospital Goes Digital With Help From IBM Grid

Massachusetts-based HealthAlliance Hospital turned to IBM to make the most of its picture archiving and communication system (PACS). HealthAlliance Hospital, a member of UMass Memorial Health Care, installed a PACS from Siemens Medical Solutions so it can move toward digital health records while eliminating traditional paper and film. But making those digital records widely available took a little help from Big Blue. With IBM's Grid Medical Archive Solution (GMAS), the hospital can now make patient records available to clinicians anytime, anywhere. GMAS, a cross-IBM offering composed of storage, software, servers and services, gives hospitals, clinics, research institutions and pharmaceutical companies an automated and resilient enterprise storage archive for delivering medical images, patient records and other critical healthcare reference information on demand.... read more

Grid Computing News : Hospital Goes Digital With Help From IBM Grid

Massachusetts-based HealthAlliance Hospital turned to IBM to make the most of its picture archiving and communication system (PACS). HealthAlliance Hospital, a member of UMass Memorial Health Care, installed a PACS from Siemens Medical Solutions so it can move toward digital health records while eliminating traditional paper and film. But making those digital records widely available took a little help from Big Blue. With IBM's Grid Medical Archive Solution (GMAS), the hospital can now make patient records available to clinicians anytime, anywhere. GMAS, a cross-IBM offering composed of storage, software, servers and services, gives hospitals, clinics, research institutions and pharmaceutical companies an automated and resilient enterprise storage archive for delivering medical images, patient records and other critical healthcare reference information on demand.... read more

Grid Computing News : Red Hat Goes Grid

For the last several years, Red Hat has been pushing forward the development of real-time enhancements for Linux. That changed today, with the announcement of the Red Hat MRG (Messaging, Real Time and Grid) platform. The product's real-time enhancements provide deterministic performance for the kernel that enables actions to occur within the same amount of time, every time — a feature critical for a number of industries, including telecommunications, the military, healthcare and financial services. But Red Hat MRG goes further, aiming to better appeal to enterprises by adding two more features to the mix: messaging and grid computing. "Red Hat sees a lot of synergies in combining real-time and grid technologies together," said Bryan Che, Red Hat product manager for MRG.... read more

Grid Computing News : Platform Speeds Up Symphony

Platform Computing has given its financial services software a performance boost. Platform Symphony 4 is "five to 10 times faster than alternative environments," the company says. The grid-based software boosts application performance for financial services companies, giving them a quick and easy way to build high-performance computing environments for compute- and data-intensive financial applications. Symphony's grid computing environment supports key financial services processes such as intraday risk calculations, pre-trade pricing and end-of-day value at risk calculations. Through our product and community activities, Platform is committed to making it as easy as possible for companies to build and deploy models for the grid."
Platform Symphony 4 will be available in January, while the developer edition is already available at my.platform.com/symphonyde .... read more

Grid Computing News : Platform Speeds Up Symphony

Platform Computing has given its financial services software a performance boost. Platform Symphony 4 is "five to 10 times faster than alternative environments," the company says. The grid-based software boosts application performance for financial services companies, giving them a quick and easy way to build high-performance computing environments for compute- and data-intensive financial applications. Symphony's grid computing environment supports key financial services processes such as intraday risk calculations, pre-trade pricing and end-of-day value at risk calculations. Through our product and community activities, Platform is committed to making it as easy as possible for companies to build and deploy models for the grid."
Platform Symphony 4 will be available in January, while the developer edition is already available at my.platform.com/symphonyde .... read more

Grid Computing News : Red Hat Goes Grid

For the last several years, Red Hat has been pushing forward the development of real-time enhancements for Linux. That changed today, with the announcement of the Red Hat MRG (Messaging, Real Time and Grid) platform. The product's real-time enhancements provide deterministic performance for the kernel that enables actions to occur within the same amount of time, every time — a feature critical for a number of industries, including telecommunications, the military, healthcare and financial services. But Red Hat MRG goes further, aiming to better appeal to enterprises by adding two more features to the mix: messaging and grid computing. "Red Hat sees a lot of synergies in combining real-time and grid technologies together," said Bryan Che, Red Hat product manager for MRG.... read more