RENCI’s Dan Reed Named to Presidential Council of Advisors

Mar 06, 2006 | PCAST advises the president on technology, scientific research priorities, and math and science education. Its members are national leaders in business, research and education, including Dell founder Michael Dell, Intel co-founder Gordon Moore and MIT President Emeritus Charles Vest.
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Cluster Resources All About Empowerment

Mar 06, 2006 | GRIDtoday spoke with Cluster Resources CTO David Jackson about the unique capabilities of the company's Moab family of solutions, which includes cluster, Grid and utility computing suites. Said Jackson: "We do what we do well, which is empower [companies] to deliver their skills seamlessly, efficiently and reliably."
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The 15 Percent Solution

Feb 27, 2006 | In this opinion piece, Tom Gibbs, director of worldwide strategy and planning in the sales and marketing group at Intel Corp., discusses in depth the plight of IT budgets worldwide. He looks at Grid computing as a savior for those charged with increasing results in the face of decreasing budgets.
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Enterprise Taking Notice of Grids for Data Management

Feb 13, 2006 | In this article from February's issue of the Globus Consortium Journal, Univa CEO Steve Tuecke discusses how EMC's acquisition of Acxiom's Grid software opened many enterprise eyes to the fact that Grid computing has legs beyond sheer computing power.
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DataSynapse Appoints New CFO

Feb 13, 2006 | After a successful year in 2005, DataSynapse announced the addition of Roger Blanchette as CFO. Anticipating similar success in 2006 and beyond, the company sought an experienced finance practitioner with an extensive background working with public software companies to help DataSynapse gear up for its next stage of growth.
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United Devices Unveils HPC Collaboration Center

Feb 06, 2006 | United Devices has unveiled a state-of-the-art facility -- the High-Performance Computing (HPC) Collaboration Center, or HPC3 -- that provides the technology and expertise necessary for companies to validate the business benefits of a collaborative HPC solution in an environment that emulates their real-world operations.
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A Case for Grid Computing in Insurance

Feb 06, 2006 | Insurance companies around the globe are faced with challenges of decreasing margins, increased competition, decreased budgets and a growing need for computing resources. Grid computing seems to be a key to facing many of these challenges.
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William Fellows on the Year Ahead in Grid Computing

Jan 23, 2006 | If The 451 Group's principal analyst, William Fellows, is correct, we should see a lot of action in the Grid community as the year progresses, as he sees 2006 as the year "Grid technologies start to cross the chasm into the enterprise." In this interview, Fellows discusses, among other topics, what this year will bring in terms of standards, software licensing and enterprise adoption of Grid computing.
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Grid Drives Business Results for BNP Paribas

Jan 16, 2006 | DataSynapse's Kelly Vizzini discusses how the structured credit group within BNP Paribas' Credit Derivatives Operations used its Grid infrastructure to master highly complex scenarios, which led to profit generation and new structured products delivered to market.
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Singapore Launches SG@Schools Program

Jan 09, 2006 | Through participating in this program, the students will be able to generate interesting solutions to solve computationally intensive problems in science and engineering by harnessing the enormous amount of processing cycles achieved through aggregating the available PCs in schools.
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Where Are We with Utility Computing in the Enterprise?

Jan 09, 2006 | Although it's still very early on, outsourcing, software as a service, "pay as you go" and subscription licensing models point to a broad, long-term change in the technology market and the way IT services are purchased. The desire to better align business practices with IT deployment and to automate processes suggests that enterprises will change the way they buy IT services in the long term.
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EMC Acquires Acxiom Grid Software

Jan 09, 2006 | EMC has acquired Acxiom's information grid software for $30 million, which was initially developed to meet the information management and time-to-market needs of Acxiom and its clients. The companies also announced a partnership combining Acxiom's Grid technology with EMC's portfolio of storage, information management and resource management solutions
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