Stock Exchange for Grid Computing?

Feb 25, 2008 | ICT Results -- | You might soon be selling your spare computer power over the Internet, or perhaps buying in extra resources to solve a tricky problem. In either case, network administration used to be a stumbling block -- until European researchers developed a successful free-market approach to grid computing.
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XTP Platforms: Ready to Make their Mark

Feb 18, 2008 | Combining the best attributes of dynamic application platforms, process automation software, and data grids and data caching technology, extreme transaction-processing platforms are ready for prime time. And if you don't trust us, ask Gartner, who said as much in an October 2007 report titled "The Birth of the Extreme Transaction-Processing Platform."
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SaaS: Making IT a 'Strategic Weapon' for Banks

Feb 11, 2008 | 3Tera Inc. Chairman and CEO Barry X Lynn discusses why it's only a matter of time before all financial institutions -- at those that want to be competitive -- will be utilizing utility computing to enable software-as-service applications. Says Lynn: "[W]e are seeing financial institutions starting to think about it as a strategic weapon again, and using it that way. Those who do not will either play catch up or fade away."
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Consolidating in the Face of a Data Avalanche

Feb 11, 2008 | Cellnet+Hunt, a provider of meter-based services to energy utilities, recently used Oracle grid solutions to consolidate its database architecture by two-thirds, despite an expected 10x spike in data volume.
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'High Latency Times, We Have You Surrounded.'

Feb 04, 2008 | In the past few months, GemStone Systems has announced partnerships with Azul Systems, and with IBM and Intel, respectively, that help to achieve low latency for a variety of tasks. While the Azul partnership addresses environments where hundreds of gigabytes of data need to be cached in-memory, the GemCache solution developed with IBM and Intel brings never-before-seen speed and reliability to electronic trading.
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Platform Computing CEO Looks to the Year Ahead

Feb 04, 2008 | Songnian Zhou, CEO of Platform Computing, is widely recognized as a pioneer of grid computing. His Ph.D. thesis established the field of distributed resources management and was the catalyst for the creation of Platform. In this interview, SAS Institute's Cheryl Doninger asks him his thoughts on how HPC and grid technology is evolving and how that's driving user adoption and vendor opportunities.
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Microsoft Proposes Yahoo Acquisition

Feb 04, 2008 | Microsoft Corp. | Microsoft has made a proposal to the Yahoo board of directors to acquire all the outstanding shares of Yahoo common stock for per share consideration of $31 -- representing a total equity value of approximately $44.6 billion.
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Nick Carr: IT Prognosticator

Jan 28, 2008 | In this interview with GRIDtoday, Nicholas Carr, author of the controversial book "The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google," predicts what enterprise IT will look like as computing continues to move into "the cloud." He offers insights on the "revolutionary" nature of today's virtualization technologies, the future revenue model for IT vendors, and whether the Web will be able to handle the load.
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Virtualization + Database = Scalability, Availability

Jan 21, 2008 | Utilizing virtualization technology, xkoto's Gridscale database load balancer acts as a middleware layer between the application and the database, allowing numerous active copies to run simultaneously. And customers are buying into the company's claims of scalability and "continuous availability" -- the start-up already has more than a dozen big-name customers, including Genworth Financial.
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Server and Storage Virtualization: A Complete Solution

Jan 14, 2008 | Implementing storage virtualization extends the benefits of an investment in server virtualization and builds upon them, providing simplified storage management, improved storage utilization and application performance, a bullet-proof disaster recovery solution, and a diminished need for proprietary vendor solutions.
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OGF Makes Interoperability Real

Jan 07, 2008 | Open Grid Forum | Starting in 2008, Microsoft's Window's HPC Server 2008, Altair's PBS Professional and Platform's LSF products all will meet OGF's HPC Basic Profile Specification. End users will now be guaranteed that their use of these products will enable complete interoperability to manage resources in virtual organizations over multi-site, multi-vendor grids.
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Voltaire Enlightens the Market in 2007

Jan 07, 2008 | From its Nasdaq IPO to partnerships with industry-leading financial services ISVs to a pairing of its GridVision software with Cluster Resources' Moab job scheduler, Voltaire had a big 2007. We spoke with senior vice president of marketing Patrick Guay to get his thoughts on the highlights, as well as what we can expect in the year to come.
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