grid infrastructure applications in news

Cost and energy benefits driving virtualisation

News Combining multiple grid computing farms and adding virtualisation is also on the agenda. Virtualisation will be a key infrastructure priority for CIOs looking to reduce costs and increase energy... [04 May 2007]

Grids and anti-terror bio-sensors get funding boost

News Projects include the eHealthcare@Home project, which aims to integrate patient monitoring systems with analysis of this information via grid infrastructure, and an Oxford University Computing Laboratory... [25 Nov 2005]

Gates: The "software as a service" age is here

News And Sun Microsystems is focusing its Sun Grid offering on infrastructure services, such as computing power and storage, although it intends to work through partners to offer software. The idea is that... [14 Sep 2005]

Morgan Stanley signs $575m utility deal with IBM

News The five-year, $575m contract is an extension of an information technology services agreement struck between the two companies in 1999, and it builds on a separate grid computing deal announced by the two in September. [28 Apr 2004]

Grid computing: Its $12bn time is coming, say analysts

News Grid's introduction will be slow but users' desire for a more efficient use of infrastructure and improved communications will drive adoption. When grid finally gets its act together in... [21 Apr 2004]

Oracle turns in results ahead of expectations

News One analyst, Jim Mendelson with Schwab SoundView Capital Markets, said Oracle's operations may have benefited from the company's introduction of its 10g database, or grid computing. The relationship between... [12 Mar 2004]

CSC picks up £266m National Grid Transco contract

News Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) has won a £266m seven-year contract to look after much of the IT infrastructure of National Grid Transco (NTG). Known for its electricity transmission and distribution... [18 Dec 2003]

Grid computing reaches new prime

News Distributed and grid computing have been of interest chiefly to the academic community, but it's becoming increasingly useful for commercial applications such as pharmaceutical research. But as resources... [03 Dec 2003]

IBM outlines self-managing blueprint

News Its initial autonomic software toolkits use existing standards, including the Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA), which is a set of standards to build applications that can distribute processing over... [04 Apr 2003]

IBM beefing up app server software

News The software is also designed to lay the foundation for grid computing, which IBM touts as a way for businesses to buy computing power on demand, similar to the way electricity and other utilities are purchased. [25 Nov 2002]

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