Grid & Utility Computing

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News Analyst Views - News about Utility/On-Demand Computing - What the analysts are saying about grid/utility/on-demand computing. Grid Computing Planet - Grid (or utility) computing is the future of the Internet, offering resources on demand. Welcome at Earthweb's special site about grid computing. A Peek Under Microsoft's Secret 'Bigtop' - A grid computing operating system, codenamed Bigtop, is in the works at Microsoft. Mary Jo Foley looks at the challenges ahead for Microsoft's top-secret project. Jonathan Schwartz's on The N1 Grid Service - Sun's COO describes how N1 Grid Service can deliver Utility Computing. Gridblog.com - Updated almost daily with updates about grid computing technology, vendors, applications, market, ... >> get more news here

Info UtilityComputing.com - This looks like one of the best sites on utility computing, bringing news, views and a free report Grid Computing Planet - Grid (or utility) computing is the future of the Internet, offering resources on demand. Welcome at Earthweb's special site about grid computing. SaaS (Sotware as a Service) Showplace - With over 500 company listings in nearly 80 application and industry categories, the Software as a Service (SaaS) Showplace is the largest vendor-independent, online directory of information and insight about the SaaS marketplace. Reports and Insights on Virtualisation/Virtualization - Research, articles, white papers, ... at one convenient place: findtechinsights.com. The Grid Advantage.com - TheGridAdvantage.com provides in-depth case studies and "how to" features that explain ways to make grid components work harmoniously together. Details include how to monitor and fine-tune performance, diagnose root causes of system stress points, and take advantage of grid's on-the-fly resource allocation capabilities to keep servers running at high efficiency rates. Controlling grid complexity is a key to helping enterprises transition from traditional IT environments without adding administrative staff or management overhead. (sponsored by Oracle) >> get more info here

Market Apple: Xgrid - XGrid brings Apple's legendary ease-of-use to computational clustering by providing the easiest way to run compute intensive applications, such as the popular gene-sequencing application BLAST, on multiple Macs using Apple's Rendezvous networking technology. OnDemand Strategy - The On Demand Network is a new type of organisation dedicated to a new type of organisation: The On Demand Network. Instead of rigid, hierarchical "command and control" management approaches, these business ventures utilise dynamic community models, a de-centralised decision-making architecture that enables agility. Very interesting OnDemand 101 report, freely available. Grid Technology Partners - A market research and consulting firm focused on the fields of grid computing, autonomic computing, utility computing and related technologies. >> get more market info here

Literature Article collection: CEO Guido to Enterprsie Mashups - Mixing data from different sources can give companies a competitive edge. Corporations from IBM to Google to E*Trade are jumping onboard the trend of mixing and matching software from different sources. How can you use this new trend ? The New Data Center - Sportlight on Server Virtualisation - As technologies such as automation and virtualisation emerge, enormous changes are moving toward your IT infrastructure. This collection of articles offers you an in-depth look at this nex-generation infrastructure. It highlights the tools, management issues and pioneer issues. Get Up to Speed on Utility Computing | CNET News.com - Series of links to News, background and market players InfoWorld Spotlight: Grid Computing - InfoWorld's latest grid computing news and analysis, white papers, and case studies. (But the spotlight is sponsored by Oracle) Grid Computing @ eWeek - News, reviews and analyses on the latest thing in database technology and operating systems, particularly for grid computing. >> get more literature here