Evening the Satellite Imaging Playing Field

Aug 27, 2007 | Believe it or not, when it comes to processing and presenting geospatial images, Google doesn't have the market cornered in terms of scale. One glowing example of this is GeoEye, who has experienced a computing revolution since making the switch to Appistry's Enterprise Application Fabric. A leading provider of geospatial data, GeoEye has many customers in the intelligence and commercial sectors, including Microsoft for its Google Earth/Google Maps rival Live Search Maps.
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Citrix Acquires XenSource

Aug 20, 2007 | Citrix Systems Inc. | Citrix Systems announced a definitive agreement to acquire XenSource, a privately held leader in enterprise-grade virtual infrastructure solutions, for approximately $500 million in a combination of cash and stock
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Grid in Financial Services: Past, Present and Future

Jul 30, 2007 | Marc Jacobs makes his living building applications for financial services customers, and here he shares his thoughts and experiences with distributed computing in the financial sector. Says Jacobs, "For financial services, distributed computing isn’t a luxury: it puts food on the table."
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E-Mail Archiving and Grid: A Perfect Match

Jul 23, 2007 | When it comes to grid computing and finding the proverbial "needle in a haystack," many people think to the grand ambitions of research-based distributed computing projects, but Mimosa Systems is looking to prove that grid technologies can help with a far more practical -- and, often, legally required -- application: e-mail archiving. As recent scandals have proven, tracking down subpoenaed e-mails might not be easy, but it is the law. The question is: How much time and money are you willing to spend searching?
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Data Solutions Provider Finds Utility-Based Business Model

Jul 16, 2007 | By running its customers' data matching and de-duplication jobs across the Sun Grid Compute Utility, Infosolve Technologies said it has discovered a new business model that allows it to save upward of $300,000 per year versus maintaining its own datacenter.
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SOA and Grid: A Successful Marriage of Two Paradigms

Jul 09, 2007 | Due to the tremendous evolution in SOA infrastructure (BPEL process managers, Web services security and business process analytics) and the adoption of enterprise grid in datacenters, the collaboration between these two solutions has become increasingly beneficial. This article explains how SOA and grid collaborate and empower each other to optimize IT systems.
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A Refresher Course on SOA

Jul 09, 2007 | Service-oriented architecture, or SOA, is a well-known acronym in the software industry. SOA has made quite a long journey from being a buzzword to being put into practice to solve enterprise business problems. Yet, arriving at a common definition of SOA is not easy. This article too does not aim to define SOA, but explains the concept of SOA. Understanding the concept is good enough to get a quick start on SOA and its applicability.
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Microsoft's Burton Smith Keynotes on Reinvention of Computing

Jul 02, 2007 | Microsoft Corp. | In a keynote address at the International Supercomputing Conference, Microsoft technical fellow Dr. Burton Smith talked about new approaches to software development where everyday computer programs must be able to execute in parallel on multiple microprocessor cores, allowing developers to build more powerful, humanistic software applications that incorporate speech, conversation, rich visualization and anticipatory execution of tasks.
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First Financial ISV Brings App to Sun's Network.com

Jul 02, 2007 | With the addition of its CDOSheet price modeling and risk analysis application to the catalog at Network.com, CDO2 became the first financial industry ISV to make its software available to the public via the Sun Grid. CDO2 sees a bright future for banking applications on utility models, and Sun hopes this addition sparks industry demand for its service.
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Orchestrating Virtualization

Jun 25, 2007 | Using virtualization technology to turn physical machines into ghost boxes for cost savings and enhanced green efforts is only half the story -- datacenter automation tools are necessary to truly bring the benefits of this technology to life, especially in distributed environments.
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To Grid or to Evergrid, That Is the Question

Jun 25, 2007 | With a software suite promising to manage distributed resources from "cradle to grave" while guaranteeing timely job completion and SLA enforcement, Evergrid is looking to make traditional resource managers a thing of the past in both HPC and enterprise datacenters, for both batch and transactional applications.
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Virtualization for Business Continuity

Jun 25, 2007 | Virtualization is enjoying a period of explosive growth, and an increasing number of enterprises are becoming converts. IDC estimates about 750,000 virtual servers were in operation in 2004, and it expects this to rise to more than 5 million by 2009. Why the surge of interest? Virtualization as a concept has been around for years, if not decades, but only recently has its potential for business continuity been truly understood.
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Taking Licensing to the Next Level

Jun 18, 2007 | With the new licensing model for the company's PBS Professional 9.0 grid management software, Altair Engineering is looking to change the face of software licensing. Altair's customers, at least, should be happy, as they will have the ability enable all of their resources while only buying licenses (at $13.50 apiece) for what they want to use, and those licenses can be utilized wherever needed, including on resources outside of the firewall.
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Grid a Safe Bet for Hedge Funds

Jun 11, 2007 | Taking a deeper look at III Offshore Advisors' move to the Digipede Network, it becomes clear why more and more hedge funds are choosing to optimize their IT resources with grid software. Aside from increased speed in complex risk analyses, III Offshore Advisors believes its grid paid for itself in a matter of days.
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Altair Unveils On-Demand Model, Tackles Multi-Core Licensing

Jun 04, 2007 | Altair Engineering | Altair Engineering unveiled its new software business model to enable the first on-demand computing software environment that tackles the challenges of multi-core processor licensing. In response to industry changes, Altair's innovative and patented software licensing model for PBS Professional allows users to only pay for what they use, thus powering a pure on-demand computing environment.
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'Not So Fast, Supercomputers,' Say Software Programmers

May 28, 2007 | Purdue University | Despite the promise of almost unimagined computing power that comes with multi-core processors, even computing experts wonder whether this time the hardware developers have raced too far ahead of many programmers' ability to create software.
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Connecting the Dots: Applications and Grid Infrastructure

May 28, 2007 | This article examines how grids built around a service-oriented architecture focusing on business tasks, business flows, and service delivery will significantly shorten the time and efforts in application deployment and configuration, while delivering the greatest efficiencies.
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University of Sunderland Makes Grid Computing Green

May 28, 2007 | University of Sunderland | One of world's first environmentally friendly grid computers has been designed by experts at the University of Sunderland (England). The new computer system will not only offer the processing power of a multi-million-dollar computer at an affordable price to small businesses, but will do so without damaging the environment.
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DataSynapse Lays Out Application Virtualization Vision

May 21, 2007 | DataSynapse | DataSynapse has laid out its vision of creating a real-time infrastructure that helps large organizations align their IT resources with their business objectives.
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GemStone, Rogue Wave Better Positions With Partnership

May 21, 2007 | GemStone Systems and Rogue Wave Software last week announced a partnership that will look to leverage the symbiotic nature of their respective software solutions, GemFire Enterprise Data Fabric and Hydra Suite. If successful, the partnership could add some fire to the companies' sales pitches in the distributed data caching and more-inclusive grid-based application platform markets.
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Platform's Chris Smith Named OGF VP of Standards

May 14, 2007 | Platform Computing | A long time member of the Open Grid Forum, Smith will now be overseeing a large and important function within OGF as the new vice president of standards. He will be responsible for leading the development of architecture, specifications, roadmaps and related activities associated with the standardization and interoperability of grid software.
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Access Control in Grid Computing Environments

May 07, 2007 | Microsoft has recently focused on the problem of complexity in grid access control, and has developed a solution called the Security Policy Assertion Language (SecPAL). The project -- undertaken by the advanced technology incubation group of Microsoft's Chief Research and Strategy Officer and Microsoft Research Cambridge -- resulted in a declarative, logic-based language.
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Sun Grid Expanded to 24 More Countries

May 07, 2007 | Sun Microsystems Inc. | In addition to the United States, the $1/CPU-hr, pay-per-use Network.com utility offering is now available in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Sweden and United Kingdom.
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Financial Services and Beyond: Platform's Grid Roadmap

Apr 30, 2007 | From its recently announced focus on financial services to its long-term vision of enabling adaptive datacenters, Platform Computing has its eyes on the future. One customer that epitomizes the company's vision is Lehman Brothers, the financial bigshot that expects its Symphony-powered infrastructure to evolve well beyond the traditional batch-processing model.
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Utility Computing Tears Down the Water Wheel

Apr 23, 2007 | In an Xtalks Web conference on April 11, Nicholas Carr, former executive editor of the Harvard Business Review and acclaimed business writer, discussed the emergence of grid computing in a broader, historical context. Analyzing the rise of what Carr called the "Third Age" of IT from a strategic and economic standpoint, he took his audience through an IT timeline aiming to explain the rise and ultimate need of grid computing by comparing the modern IT sector to the water wheel of industrialization.
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