grid infrastructure in news
Cloud computing - the data centre of the future?
News Providers use virtualisation extensively and grid computing software. Forrester Research on Monday released a report written by James Staten, an IT operations and infrastructure analyst, saying that cloud computing does not meet the needs of large... [11 Mar 2008]
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 efficiency over the next 12 months. [04 May 2007]
How Formula One takes tech to the extremes
News The intensive development work and data telemetry and analysis needed to stay at the sharp end of the grid during the season creates unique demands and relies on having the best IT infrastructure possible. [14 Mar 2007]
Luton gears up with high speed network
News The borough's schoolchildren will all have access to the Luton Learning Grid via the network with a bandwidth of up to 10Mbps. Transformation cannot happen without a solid and sound foundation/platform on which to build - this infrastructure... [26 Oct 2006]
Fears over "suicide hackers" Down Under
News While the risk will be high that they will be caught, they will accept that as a fact of life for 'the cause' and be prepared to go to prison for 30 years because they stopped a banking system working or a power grid taken down or took down the... [28 Sep 2006]
Oracle grid gets a bit of Sport Relief
News UK charity Sport Relief is to use Oracle's grid computing technology to ensure its web infrastructure can handle online donations and user demand. Oracle will provide a range of its flagship software products free of charge to enable Sport Relief... [14 Jul 2006]
A new software age is dawning, says Sun
News Naturally, Sun believes it has the answer - buying processing power from the company's standardised computing grid. But in San Francisco at an annual Sun meeting with analysts, Papadopoulos laid out his reasoning for why he believes the trend is... [03 Feb 2006]
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 project to build a secure grid for... [25 Nov 2005]
Physicists put huge computing grid through its paces
News The UK is currently the biggest single contributor to the LCG infrastructure, with more than a fifth of the grid's processing power at its 16 sites. UK particle physicists have started the next phase of testing for the world's largest computing grid. [21 Sep 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. Microsoft intends to expand its hosted software offerings by... [14 Sep 2005]
Hacking fears spark power-plant security clampdown
News Right now, no mandatory cyber-security standards exist for power grid operators but many of them adhere to voluntary ones set by the North American Electric Reliability Council (Naerc), said a council spokeswoman. [17 Aug 2005]
Moneybookers chooses The Bunker for data security
News The Kent-based hosting company claims its IT infrastructure was designed by cryptologists and it has its own connection to the national grid. Electronic payments service Moneybookers has bolstered its security by moving back-up severs to a hosting... [05 Aug 2005]
Broadband through your electric: Europe wants more
News The Union is hoping that market liberalisation will make broadband over the electricity grid more attractive to new companies and encourage existing utility suppliers to use their infrastructure to supply broadband. [11 Apr 2005]
EDS wins £15m outsourcing deal at Cheshire council
News We want to look at consolidating our server farm and maybe look at going to grid computing in the medium term over the next couple of years," he said. EDS has won a £15m outsourcing deal to manage the desktop infrastructure at Cheshire County Council. [08 Mar 2005]
What does WEEE mean to IT?
News The WEEE Directive could bring on more charitable donations as well as reuse of hardware within an organisation, especially at the server level, where a powerful system could be retired to a less resource-intensive job such as in a grid or... [17 Feb 2005]
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