Grid Computing News : Survey Claims HPC Trumps Virtualization, Green IT

A new survey claims that high-performance computing is the top IT priority, at least for a few industries. Surprisingly, 'green' IT initiatives ranked last in the survey. The IT execs also said they face a couple of major challenges on their cloud computing initiatives. The respondents overwhelmingly said that four key areas would be the most helpful to their IT processes: the ability to tie business metrics to services; policy-driven server provisioning capabilities; dashboards and real-time reporting; and the ability to dynamically scale applications to meet peak service levels. Nearly half the respondents said cost reduction is the primary motivation in choosing a data center technology, and a quarter of them said the biggest issue with data center operations is aligning IT with business objectives.... read more