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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

Live Webcast: Virtual Service Oriented Grids: Transforming the Enterprise

One of the most powerful features of computing grids is the capability to identify and allocate resources needed to build and run applications on demand and in almost real time, without months of negotiation or waiting for the hardware procurement cycle to facilitate it. While most discussions...

Tags: Webcast, Grid Computing, Grid, Intel Corp., Utility Computing, It Management, Network Technology, It service Management, Networking

Webcasts 2008-04-22

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

Insight and Outlook, Part 11: The Resurgence of the Mainframe - Reassess the Mainframe as the Center of Your Business Management System

IBM has seen growth in its System z mainframe business for six of the last nine quarters, according to IBM quarterly earnings statements. A curious, possibly surprising development, eh? Midsize UNIX boxes, grid computing schemes, and server farms made up of dozens of smaller systems seem to dominate today's IT...

Tags: Microsoft Outlook, Business Management, Grid Computing, IBM Corp., Mainframes, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Servers, Hardware, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2008-03-25

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, Grid

White papers 2008-03-13

Grid Computing With Oracle Database 11g

This paper discusses the evolution of the datacenter toward the adoption of grid computing and details the benefits derived from this development. It considers the implications for database systems and details the requirements of a database for successful deployment in a grid computing context. It then reviews the features of...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Grid Computing, Oracle Database, International Data Group, Utility Computing, It Management, Network Technology, Storage, Databases, It service Management, Networking, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

White papers 2008-03-01

Digipede Network Version 2 Launched

Once again, I had the opportunity to speak with the good folks of Digipede. As usual, I was impressed with their pragmatic approach and the fact that they're trying very hard to make grid computing/high performance computing concepts available to everyone by utilizing Microsoft's .NET architecture as a platform. This...

Tags: Developer, Administrator, Performance, Network, Grid Computing, Tool, Digipede Control Features Drop, Performance Management, Utility Computing, It Management, Network Technology, Human Resources, Workforce Management, It service Management, Networking, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-02-19

Maximize IT Flexibility and Lower Costs with Grid Computing on Windows

To stay competitive, organizations need a flexible IT infrastructure to support rapidly changing business needs. Grid computing enables you to respond immediately to new requirements by quickly adding capacity on demand and integrating applications to create new business processes. To learn more about the promise of grid...

Tags: Database, Oracle Corp., Information Technology, Grid Computing, Microsoft Windows, Utility Computing, It Management, Network Technology, It service Management, Networking

Webcasts 2008-02-13

Load Balancing of the Direct Linear Multisplitting Method in a Grid Computing Environment

Many scientific applications need to solve very large sparse linear systems in order to simulate phenomena close to reality. Grid computing is an answer to the growing demand of computational power but communication times are significant and the bandwidth is variable, therefore frequent synchronizations slow down performances. The use of...

Tags: Parallel, Load Balancing, Grid Computing, Network Technology, Cloud Computing, Utility Computing, It Management, Networking, It service Management

White papers 2008-02-08

Taobao.com Turns to Grid Computing to Improve System Performance and Reliability

Founded in 2003, Taobao.com is the leading shopping Web site in China, with a 70% share of the market and more than 40 million registered members. Taobao.com wanted to design more and better promotions to attract customers and make better use of business data to inform decision making and Web...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Performance, Scalability, Grid Computing, Web Site Development, Utility Computing, It Management, Network Technology, Internet, It service Management, Networking

Case studies 2008-02-01

The Bureau of Labor Insurance Creates a Robust Labor Protection and Service Network

Established 57 years ago, Taiwan's labor insurance service now covers a record-breaking 8.79 million people. To cope with increasingly complex business content and fast-growing data volumes, the BLI is changing the architecture of its IT systems. The business is moving from a closed mainframe environment to an open Unix platform....

Tags: Oracle Corp., Network, Business, Grid Computing, Insurance, Financial Planning, Utility Computing, It Management, Network Technology, Databases, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance, It service Management, Networking, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Case studies 2007-12-01

Parsing IBM's weak hardware sales

Parsing IBM's weak hardware salesVirtualization cuts both ways...Virtualization will cut both ways. One, it crams more on the same servers. Two, it's becoming easier and easier to make many smaller machines look like one big machine. Grid computing is a reality, and the forces that drive massive...

Tags: Sales strategy, Utility computing, Storage management, hardware sale, virtualization, IBM Corp., sales, hardware, grid computing

Discussion threads 2007-10-17

Digipede - Grid Computing that works with the golden rules of IT

I had another chance to speak with Digipede the other day. I'm struck by the fact that they're making is possible for developers familiar with Microsoft's development environment to deploy their applications using "grid computing" or "high performance computing" techniques without violating the "Golden Rules of IT." Digipede's product makes...

Tags: Information Technology, Grid Computing, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2007-09-14

Base One Foundation Component (BFC) Library (exe)

The Base One Foundation Component Library BFC is a comprehensive RAD framework for creating networked database applications with Visual Studio .NET and DBMS software from Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, Sybase, and MySQL. Building on a patented "database-centric" architecture, BFC employs a unique, cross-platform data dictionary to provide enhanced security, optimization, and...

Tags: Job, Grid Computing, BFC, C#, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Utility Computing, It Management, Network Technology, .Net, Programming Languages, Recruitment & Selection, Databases, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, It service Management, Networking, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Data Management

Software downloads 2007-08-06

Gas Natural Strengthens Global Business With Enterprise Grid Computing

Gas Natural, the Barcelona-based energy services company, traces its roots back more than 150 years to the days when the streets of Madrid and Barcelona were illuminated with gaslights. Gas Natural's advanced technology group assumed a major role supporting the company's globalization. In 2003 it led a major transformation of...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Performance, Barcelona, Grid Computing, Gas Natural, Performance Management, Business Intelligence, Globalization, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Strategy, Management

Case studies 2007-08-01

A Practical Application for Grid Computing

Grids today appear mostly in High Performance Computing HPC environments, where hundreds of inexpensive compute nodes link together to solve parallel processing problems that previously could only have been addressed by using supercomputers. Storage grids were developed to supply the enormous amounts of data that such processing power was capable...

Tags: Enterprise Management Associates Inc., Storage, Parallel Processing, Grid Computing, Computing

White papers 2007-06-01

Ordnance Survey Adopts Grid Computing for Virtually Unlimited Scalability

Mapping information is vital to government and businesses. Independent experts estimate that its mapping data underpins 10% of all economic activity in the United Kingdom, estimated at $200 billion a year. Since 2001, Ordnance Survey has been engaged in improving the currency and accuracy of its authoritative and widely used...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Scalability, Grid Computing, Ordnance Survey, Roi/Tco, Government, Programming Languages, Databases, Utility Computing, It Management, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, It service Management

Case studies 2007-06-01

Shinhan Bank Moves to Grid Computing to Improve Competitive Advantage

Founded in 1982, Shinhan Bank became the second largest bank in South Korea after merging with Chohung Bank in 2006. One of Shinhan Bank's key goals after the merger was to consolidate the systems it had inherited and standardize on a common platform. This would reduce the complexity and costs...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Competitive Advantage, Grid Computing, Financial Services, Mergers & Acquisitions, Investment, Finance

Case studies 2007-05-01