grid service in comment and analysis
The CIO shopping list
Comment Bottom of the tech shopping list for CIOs this year are open source, grid/utility computing and RFID. Despite the hype, service oriented architecture (SOA) (20 per cent) and business intelligence (20 per... [26 Mar 2008]
Virtualisation gets trendy
Comment Grid computing is also an example of resource aggregation, as it enables the virtualisation of distributed IT resources such as storage, bandwidth and CPU cycles, while splitting a mainframe into logical partitions is an... [15 May 2007]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Grid's a 'no-brainer'
Comment Grid is dependent on virtualisation of the environment - of the network, storage, databases, hardware and services - and this is happening due to the move towards open standards and the acceptance of web services and... [18 Nov 2005]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Service management
Comment Reasonable, yet lesser impetus is being put behind the implementation of resource management software, for example storage virtualisation and grid-related technologies. Perhaps this disinterest is unsurprising given the... [20 Oct 2005]
Leader: Grids - get your house in order first
Leader CIOs need to recognise the potential power of their network and use the spare capacity, not for the sake of using it but to ensure they have done everything to warrant a business case for using a managed grid... [04 Oct 2005]
Leader: Lycos must have seen it coming...
Leader While spammers have control of their own network - which is unquestionably more sizeable than Lycos' own grid effort - they will use it. In the least surprising news of the week we reported this morning that Lycos has... [01 Dec 2004]
Will's Web Watch: How to attack spammers in your sleep
Comment Seen originally as a way for academic research to garner vast power, grid computing has become a principle used and abused by the cyber-criminals. The method of launch and propagation will require users to download a... [30 Nov 2004]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: We must simplify SOA
Comment Vendors such as IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and HP use terms as diverse as 'on demand', 'agile business', 'grid computing' and 'adaptive infrastructure' to describe their visions of utility computing, but the general push is... [23 Jul 2004]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: From mainframes to grids and virtualisation...
Comment Computing has evolved to the point where current hype surrounds concepts such as grid and virtualisation. These go under the banner 'grid' - essentially, clever software running on each computer that... [13 Feb 2004]
Quocirca’s Straight Talking... What to expect in 2004
Comment Next is utility computing - on-demand, on tap, grid, whatever you want to call it. Kicking off a brand new series exclusive to silicon.com, Quocirca's service director Clive Longbottom asks what - and... [02 Jan 2004]
Leader: Thank you 2003
Leader Our list of things that get discussed a lot now but which you probably shouldn't be losing sleep over include 3G, grid computing, biometrics and malicious hacking. They want better quality service,... [23 Dec 2003]
The Bloor Perspective: Mobile ringtones, power blackouts and corporate governance
Comment Meanwhile Midwest ISO was having trouble with its "state estimator", a computer program that reports on whether the electricity grid is in trouble. Computer systems within the North American energy grid... [01 Dec 2003]
Q&A: Vint Cerf on VoIP
Comment The more important things are likely to be grid computing. Long distance has gone that way, but it's less so for local service because there's only a modest amount of competition. By 1988, I was... [12 Sep 2003]
The Bloor Perspective: Procurement outsourcing, ROI and the PS2 grid
Comment Indeed, as well as extending the scope and raising the quality of service already offered in the internet gaming world, it is clear that Butterfly.net, IBM and Sony clearly see potential in grid... [17 Mar 2003]
Should you be outsourcing?
Comment Is IT integral to the way your business operates or does it - like the electricity grid - provide a useful but generic service? When two companies merge there's always going to be an IT supplier left... [21 Jun 2002]
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