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EMC Helps Save US$3 Million and Ensures Scalability With Consolidated Grid Computing Solution

EMC Corporation wanted to contain costs for the large, global services provider by enabling the company to migrate to lower cost commodity hardware and provide the flexibility to host databases in multiple ways to optimize energy efficiency and minimize operating costs. The challenge was to ensure scalability to support EMC's...

Tags: Data Center, Oracle Corp., Scalability, Grid Computing, EMC Corp., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management

Case studies 2009-07-01

Raising the Bar on Business Analytics: Innovation Powered by Grid

This white paper focuses on the benefits of deploying business analytics solutions on grid computing platforms. The paper discusses these technologies, the reasons for selecting business analytics software on grid computing platforms, and the benefits achieved from them by three organizations. The examples show that these technologies can enable competitive...

Tags: Innovation, Grid Computing, Grid, Business Analytics, International Data Group

White papers 2009-07-01

Got some opinions about smart grid technology? U.S. Commerce Department seeks feedback

The National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST, part of the U.S. Commerce Department of Commerce, has published a lengthy report detailing its notions about what should be included in the U.S. smart grid. Here's a quick excerpt from the summary: "The greatest benefit from the smart...

Tags: Innovation, Grid Computing, Diversity, U.S. Department Of Commerce, Grid, Standards, NIST, Quality, Business Operations, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-06-22

Towards Quality of Service in the Cloud

Quality of Service QoS plays a critical role in the affective reservation of resources within service oriented distributed systems and has been widely investigated in the now well established paradigm of Grid Computing. The emergence of a new paradigm, Cloud Computing, continues the natural evolution of Distributed Systems to cater...

Tags: QoS, Grid Computing, University Of Leeds, Cloud Computing, Utility Computing, Network Technology, It Management, Networking, It service Management

White papers 2009-06-10

Grid and Cloud Computing Technology: Interoperability and Standardization for the Telecommunications Industry

The European Telecommunications Standards Institute formed the Grid Technical Committee TC GRID in 2006 with participation from over 20 organizations spanning private sector, government, and academia. It had a specific mandate to address the convergence of the IT and Telecommunications industries in particular in the domain of interoperability. Grid computing,...

Tags: Interoperability, Industry, Grid Computing, Telecommunications, Standardization, ETSI, Cloud Computing, Utility Computing, It Management, Network Technology, It service Management, Networking

White papers 2009-05-25

Cross-Validation and Learning Curve Model Comparison With JMP Genomics and Grid Computing

The Food and Drug Administration has challenged researchers to demonstrate whether or not gene expression data can reliably predict future disease. JMP Genomics responded with a suite of predictive modeling tools suitable for short, fat data: tens of observations with tens of thousands of variables. The approach is to compare...

Tags: SAS Institute, Grid Computing, Distributed Computing, Modeling, Research & Development, Cloud Computing, Network Technology, Business Operations, Networking

White papers 2009-02-27

High School Networking Class Builds Virtual Computing Grid From Old Computers With D-Link DES-3526 Switch

The Abington Senior High School networking course found some unique networking challenges within their Cisco network that could be solved with a new switch and a grid computing configuration. For the purposes here, "Grid computing," describes a cluster of computers connected via Ethernet, which share resources to perform large tasks....

Tags: D-Link Systems, Network, Grid Computing, Grid, Computer, Home Networking, Ethernet, Cloud Computing, Network Technology, Utility Computing, It Management, Networking, Personal Technology, It service Management

Case studies 2009-02-02

Asciano Improves Application Performance Fourfold With Grid Computing

Asciano was formed in 2007 following a merger between rail freight services provider Pacific National and ports and stevedoring operator Patrick. With the merger came the need to standardize on one financial management system that could be utilized by its 8,000 staff Australiawide. To ensure application availability and scalability, the...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Performance, Grid Computing, Asciano, Financial Management, Mergers & Acquisitions, Financial Accounting, Cloud Computing, Utility Computing, It Management, Investment, Network Technology, Databases, Financial Planning, Finance, It service Management, Networking, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Case studies 2009-02-01

Maxmise IT Flexibility and Lower Costs With Grid Computing

This document discusses grid computing: Oracle's definition of it, the benefits of it, and the elements that comprise an Oracle Enterprise Grid Computing environment. It also highlights an Oracle customer's experiences, and covers when to implement grid computing and covers grid implementation strategies.

Tags: Oracle Corp., Grid Computing, Cloud Computing, Utility Computing, It Management, Network Technology, It service Management, Networking

White papers 2008-10-31

Ten Things to Know About Grid Computing on Windows

This Oracle whitepaper offers insights into Oracle Grid. A grid allows a business to add capacity, cheaply, whenever it is needed. What's more, an Oracle Grid can help you gain control of your computing resources on the database and application server tiers

Tags: Oracle Corp., Grid Computing, Microsoft Windows, Cloud Computing, Utility Computing, It Management, Network Technology, Application Servers, Middleware, Operating Systems, Software, It service Management, Networking, Enterprise Software

White papers 2008-10-31

Grid Computing meets ET

Grid Computing meets ET3d animationI'd like to see a high quality, open source/wiki syle, 3d animated movie rendered on a grid. The profits could go to charity or somethin. It would kinda go like this:1. have a wiki script kinda2. a wiki storyboard3. have a character design contest to build...

Tags: Wiki, grid computing, kinda

Discussion threads 2008-10-20

Grid Computing meets ET

Could you run your nightly batch cycle on your employees' PCs? Maybe save a bundle on hardware? Probably not. The technique is best for compute-intensive tasks--tasks that require lots of calculation and little data. by Ed Gottsman

Tags: Grid Computing, Productivity, Cloud Computing, Utility Computing, It Management, Network Technology, It service Management, Networking, Ed Gottsman, PC, Rich Internet Application, Machine

Blog posts 2008-10-19

University of Otago Improves Application Availability and Scalability With Grid Technology

Founded in 1869, the University of Otago is New Zealand's oldest university. In 2004, the University decided to replace the long-standing and outdated corporate database and application server platform, which was too costly to maintain. It was extremely time-consuming to build additional application services on that platform - and one...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Application Server, Scalability, Grid Computing, Cloud Computing, Utility Computing, It Management, Network Technology, Application Servers, Middleware, It service Management, Networking, Enterprise Software, Software

Case studies 2008-09-01

R.L. Polk & Co. Improves Performance and Reduces Costs With Grid Computing

R.L Polk & Co. has served the automotive industry since 1922, providing a variety of analytical and statistical data services. R.L. Polk realized it needed to make a change to preserve its competitive advantage in the marketplace, amid significant industry, regulatory, and technology changes. Previously, R.L. Polk ran its databases...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Performance, Grid Computing, Mainframes, Business Process Reengineering (BPR), Servers, Databases, Hardware, It Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Case studies 2008-09-01

Chinese Taxation Authority Turns to Grid Computing to Improve Data Analysis

The State Administration of Taxation SAT is responsible for regulating taxation affairs under the State Council of China. Its vast territory and large population make tax administration in China an extremely complex process. The country's economic growth following its admission to the World Trade Organization also necessitated extensive taxation reforms....

Tags: Data Analysis, Information Management, Oracle Corp., Grid Computing, Taxes, Free Trade, Financial Planning, Finance

Case studies 2008-05-01

CNPC BGP Reduces Costs, Streamlines System Maintenance With Grid Computing Solution

CNPC BGP Inc. BGP is one of the world's leading onshore geophysical service providers. BGP's various business applications are accessed via an online portal environment. The company wanted to simplify system management and reduce support costs through automation to reduce staff workload and increase efficiency. As BGP was experiencing rapid...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Grid Computing, CNPC BGP, BGP, Networking

Case studies 2008-05-01

How grid computing is speeding up the race for cures

Today's doctors need the ability to try out many options very quickly and throw out the bad ones just as quick-without the expense of testing. This article shows how doctors use the World Community Grid to harness the power of thousands of computers to produce results that can save lives....

Tags: Grid Computing, IBM Corp., Cloud Computing, Utility Computing, It Management, Network Technology, Productivity, It service Management, Networking

White papers 2008-05-01

Grid Computing Now! - The Future of Grid

2007 may well be remembered as the year virtualisation went mainstream in the data centre, and as the year when SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) moved from experimentation to implementation. It may equally well be remembered as the year that vendors stopped using the term "grid", but failed to come up with...

Tags: Quocirca, Grid Computing, Grid, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Virtualization, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware

White papers 2008-04-12

Appistry Open Distribution Not Open Source

Appistry's Sam Charrington (Vice President of Product Management & Marketing) and I enjoyed a long chat about the companies newest marketing move, giving software away to develop a broad developer community. Since I have seen this done before, I wanted to know more about what the company was doing besides...

Tags: Appistry, Application, Open Source, Grid Computing, Appistry EAF, Digipede, Utility Computing, It Management, Network Technology, It service Management, Networking, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-03-28

SAS Grid 101: How It Can Modernize Your Existing SAS Environment

Grid computing promises many benefits, including improved performance of applications, higher resource utilization, lower cost of ownership, and flexibility for one's IT infrastructure. Many of the user's are evaluating grid computing to assess its relevance and value for the organization. This paper helps one by addressing two topics, "What business...

Tags: Environment, SAS Institute, Grid Computing

White papers 2008-03-13