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2007 InfoWorld CTO 25: Jamie Bernardin As the CTO and founder of software maker DataSynapse, Jamie Bernardin frequently finds himself trying to convince IT leaders and administrators to do something they've been hardwired not to: Stop thinking about managing their servers. IBM targets health care market with grid computing Hospitals have unique and challenging storage needs, as they are required to store every X-ray and medical record they create, and IBM is reaching out to that market with a system being unveiled Wednesday at a health care industry event. May 16, 4:39 a.m. PDT Sun's grid computing service goes global Sun Microsystems is expanding its Network.com utility computing service from the United States to 23 countries in Europe and Asia, the company said Thursday. May 3, 2:02 p.m. PDT Homegrown high-performance computing Once the domain of monolithic, multimillion-dollar supercomputers from Cray and IBM, HPC (high-performance computing) is now firmly within reach of today’s enterprise, thanks to the affordable computing power of clustered standards-based Linux and Microsoft servers running commodity Intel Xeon and AMD Opteron processors. Many early movers are in fact already capitalizing on in-house HPC, assembling and managing small-scale clusters on their own.  April 23, 3:00 a.m. PDT The Green Grid gets going Pleas to improve datacenter power-efficiency tend to be vague: Consolidate to fewer and more efficient systems; use virtualization to allocate resources based on need; and choose microprocessors, infrastructure components, and system architectures that are built with power conservation as a key objective. March 7, 3:00 a.m. PST 12 crackpot tech ideas that could transform the enterprise Technologies that push the envelope of the plausible capture our curiosity almost as quickly as the would-be crackpots who dare to concoct them become targets of our derision. February 19, 3:00 a.m. PST Grid will help physicists' global hunt for particles When physicists at Switzerland's CERN laboratory turn on their newest particle collider in 2007, they will rely on computer scientists in Chicago and Indianapolis to help sift through the results using a worldwide supercomputing grid. December 22, 10:55 a.m. PST Good ideas take time Two years ago, I publicly floated the concept that IT should start thinking more like entrepreneurs. What a disaster! I was speaking at a meeting of CTOs, and I mentioned that I’d heard of a few IT departments that were focusing, at least in part, on creating saleable new products and services for their companies. I asked the group what they thought of the idea. December 4, 3:00 a.m. PST Does saving computing power save money? The green computing movement has gotten some traction; I’m glad. That was one of my earliest campaigns, a cause I fought before I had a voice. And until a few years ago, I was frustrated that others were overlooking the obvious: Corporations don’t need to become champions of the environment to push for cooler, quieter, more efficient electrical equipment. I’ve said that they just have to look at their monthly electric bill. That was naïve; how can a business tell what portion of its electric bill goes to computing and storage? There must be a way to figure out whether there really is a cost savings. November 1, 3:00 a.m. PST Grids help eBay do big business A massive computing grid helps eBay make changes to its auction Web site on the fly while maintaining a 99.94 percent up time, said Paul Strong, a distinguished research scientist there. September 12, 8:52 a.m. PDT Open Grid Forum unveils its new mission, board The Open Grid Forum (OGF) standards body has officially opened for business, delivering on its commitment made back in June to detail its aims and organizational setup to coincide with the start of the GridWorld conference taking place this week in Washington, D.C. September 11, 8:36 a.m. PDT Amazon.com's rent-a-grid Amazon.com is on a roll. In March, the company launched the Simple Storage Service (S3), a metered disk in the cloud that I praised here and discussed in more detail on my blog. So in July, when the Simple Queuing Service (SQS) emerged from beta, developers were so busy with S3 that they hardly noticed. August 30, 3:00 a.m. PDT Update: US government lab offers grid computing toolkit A new open-source software toolkit is available Tuesday to improve remote online scientific collaboration via grid computing. August 22, 4:30 p.m. PDT Financial services: High pressure, high performance When it comes to sheer IT “bling,” financial services is never outshone. High margins, deep pockets, and intense competition in investment, banking, and insurance have pushed these companies to the edge of just about any technology there is. Storage, grid technology, Web services, virtualization, VoIP -- you name it, financial services companies have bought it. August 21, 3:00 a.m. PDT Lessons from the verticals Every industry presents unique challenges, where IT must marshal more than the usual chunk of resources to solve extreme headaches. That may mean walking out to the edge of grid computing to garner greater compute performance, or it may involve management challenges such as accommodating a mobile workforce or connecting hundreds of far-flung offices. The greater the problem to overcome, the greater the potential to learn from successful solutions. August 21, 3:00 a.m. PDT IBM to supply machines for grid project IBM will supply high-performance Unix-based servers and software for a grid-computing project studying areas such as hurricane storm surges and human genome sequences, the company said Friday. August 11, 7:53 a.m. PDT Grid standard groups unite to form Open Grid Forum Two former dueling grid groups Monday made good on their February promise to merge with the mission of speeding the adoption of grid technology worldwide. June 26, 1:13 p.m. PDT Franchising the energy web I’m already so depressed about the sorry state of our planet’s energy systems that I’m afraid Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth would just send me over the edge. Oh, I’ll probably relent and go see the movie, but in my case the ex-Veep will be preaching to the choir. I don’t need to be convinced any more than I already am that we’re in for a rough ride. What I need, instead, are hopeful signs that we’ll be able to engineer our way out of the mess we’re in. June 21, 3:00 a.m. PDT Waffling on grid computing When I think of grid computing, for some reason I think of my waffle iron. In addition to being grid-shaped, it makes high-performance waffles — nice and crisp with perfectly shaped ridges just waiting for the Vermont maple syrup layer. It’s also horizontally scalable — I can always get a friend to bring another waffle iron over to double my throughput. June 16, 3:00 a.m. PDT In Brief: HP to fund high-end lab in Singapore Hewlett-Packard and Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A-STAR) will set up a high-end computing lab in the Southeast Asian city-state under an agreement announced Tuesday. June 15, 4:59 a.m. PDT InfoWorld CTO 25: Russell Daniels As CTO and vice president of HP’s software business, Russell Daniels has a service-oriented perspective normally associated with applications -- rather than, say, his flagship OpenView product. June 5, 3:00 a.m. PDT Scientists build a world of 'software beings' Politicians could one day determine the results of elections before they take place, thanks to a European research project that will study social interactions between millions of virtual human beings. May 19, 5:22 a.m. PDT Sun offers 100 free CPU hours to grid developers Sun Microsystems Inc. on Thursday rolled out several incentives to draw developers into creating applications for the Sun Grid, the company announced at the JavaOne Developer Conference in San Francisco. May 18, 10:12 a.m. PDT Peer-to-peer device networking takes shape The concept of SEDs (service-enabled devices) started way back in the ‘80s with something called tuple spaces, and later took shape as Jini nder the guidance of Sun Microsystems. Jini came about when Bill Joy, Sun’s chief scientist, imagined a peer-to-peer world where every device could talk to every other device: “Hello, I’m a color printer. This is my feature set and here are my printer drivers. Would you like to access me?” May 2, 3:00 a.m. PDT IBM targets grid computing with latest SMB software IBM's latest round of software aimed at SMBs includes a bundle of hardware, software, and services designed to encourage users to adopt grid computing. April 25, 12:41 p.m. PDT Virtualization fever at LinuxWorld Expo The most prominent names in open source descend on Boston this week for the annual LinuxWorld Conference and Expo. Highlights of the show will include a new Mobile and Embedded conference track and a Grid Solution Showcase, but the hottest trend seems to be virtualization, with several new offerings set to debut throughout the week. April 3, 3:00 a.m. PDT Attack hits Sun public grid service on day one See correction below. March 23, 5:15 a.m. PST Sun to light up public grid on Monday Sun Microsystems is set to light up on Monday its long-delayed public computing grid allowing users to book CPU (central processing unit) hours with a credit card through a Web-based portal, company officials said. March 15, 11:21 a.m. PST Sun blames US department concerns for grid delay Security concerns expressed by the U.S. Department of State have further delayed the rollout of Sun Microsystems 's computer grid, a Sun executive confirmed late last month. March 6, 1:53 p.m. PST Schwartz: Security to blame for Sun Grid stumble Security concerns from the U.S. Department of State have hampered the long-delayed roll out of access to a massive Sun Microsystems computer grid at the rate of US$1 per CPU (central processing unit) hour, a Sun executive said Friday. February 27, 1:44 p.m. PST IBM opens lab in India for advanced IT deployments IBM has opened a new lab in Bangalore, India, where it will work with customers on advanced IT deployments that involve high levels of scale and performance, the company announced Thursday. February 16, 5:56 a.m. PST Dueling grid groups agree to merge The Global Grid Forum and the Enterprise Grid Alliance have agreed to merge, combining two groups that have sometimes been at odds despite their similar goals to promote grid computing. February 14, 8:33 a.m. PST Sun unwraps new range of grid-ready Ultra workstations Sun Microsystems unwrapped a new family of Ultra workstations Monday -- the Ultra 20, Ultra 40, and Ultra 45. Two of the three new machines -- the Ultra 40 and the Ultra 45 -- come bundled with Sun's grid software, while all three systems ship with some of the company's developer tools. January 30, 7:58 a.m. PST What isn't storage virtualization? Vendors often use the term "virtualization" to describe myriad products, including global name spaces, virtual storage area networks (VSANs), pooled NAS (network-attached storage), thin-provisioning software, virtual file systems, virtual tape libraries, RAID arrays and disk clusters, and virtualized application and file servers (such as EMC's VMWare). But although these technologies all use some sort of virtualization, they don't actually qualify as storage virtualization. January 12, 3:00 a.m. PST A first look at Windows Compute Cluster Server It used to be that building a usable compute cluster took plenty of money, skills, and space in the datacenter. Although creating the actual applications that run on the cluster can still be difficult, nowadays building a Linux-based cluster is generally quite simple. Commercial and open source clustering packages abound with features, open protocols, and streamlined installs. No surprise, then, that Microsoft wants a piece of this potentially lucrative market. January 9, 3:00 a.m. PST High-performance computing: Supercharging the enterprise Merlin Securities, a new prime brokerage providing trading, financing, portfolio analysis, and reporting for multibillion-dollar hedge funds, needed a competitive edge. Its larger rivals, such as Bank of America, Morgan Stanley, and UBS, had the advantage of expensive mainframes that could consolidate and analyze millions of trades each day and return reports via batch processing the next morning that measured performance on a monthly basis. So Merlin outclassed its competitors by returning trade performance information in near real time with performance measured on a daily basis and performance attribution on multiple levels, including in comparison to other securities in a market sector, numerous benchmarks, and other traders in the firm. What’s more, it did it using an inexpensive compute cluster made up of four dual-processor Dell PowerEdge 2850 servers. January 9, 3:00 a.m. PST Niagara code goes open source, Sun Fire taps grid In addition to launching its new Sun Fire servers, Sun Microsystems executives in London revealed plans to get the machines connected to grid technology, as well as an initiative to offer code for its new processor as open-source software. December 6, 9:18 a.m. PST HP plugs in to utility services Enterprises with fluctuating demand for computing power will be able to dip into Hewlett-Packard's resources via new utility computing services the company introduced last week. December 5, 3:00 a.m. PST Microsoft: Community computing is on the way Forget personal computing. A new world of "community computing" is knocking on the front door, offering unparalleled communication opportunities and challenges alike. That's how Jonathan Murray, Microsoft's chief technology officer for the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) region, envisions a new technological environment that will soon confront users, suppliers, and governments alike. November 22, 6:21 a.m. PST Moving toward mesh networks The dream of broadband connectivity that’s as ubiquitous as the air you breathe still is not reality, and perhaps it would be a cruel pun to tell you not to hold your breath. November 22, 3:00 a.m. PST 'Net will enable interactivity with common objects Imagine things like doorknobs, toasters and lightbulbs communicating with each other in a network that far exceeds anything we know today. The concept, often referred to as ubiquitous computing, isn't new. What's new is that technologies are now emerging to make it happen sooner than many of us imagine. November 17, 11:26 a.m. PST Is it time to scrap your Big Iron? See correction at end of article November 17, 3:00 a.m. PST When mainframes make sense Not everyone sees the mainframe as a relic of the past. In 1996, motor manufacturer Baldor Electric, beguiled by promises of lower costs and the desire to move to the SAP platform for all its CRM and ERP transactions, left the mainframe in favor of a Windows environment. According to Mark Shackelford, Baldor's IS director, the company was very unhappy with the results. November 17, 3:00 a.m. PST Platform steps up partnership with Microsoft Grid computing software vendor Platform Computing Inc. announced support for Microsoft Corp.'s upcoming cluster server software Tuesday. The two companies are also developing an open scheduling standard, according to the head of Platform. Additionally, Platform is expanding its existing relationships with both IBM Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Co. November 15, 10:06 a.m. PST IBM has first Grid and Grow app partners IBM announced the first application vendors -- SAS Institute and Absoft -- to support its Grid and Grow bundle of software, hardware, and services Tuesday. Big Blue first unveiled the bundle two months ago positioning it as a starter pack for midsize and large companies wanting to move into grid computing. IBM is now looking to extend the offering in a variety of ways both in terms of targeted users and vendor support. October 5, 7:54 a.m. PDT IBM, Univa partner on grids IBM is to license commercial releases of Globus middleware from open-source grid software startup Univa, according to a partnership deal due to be announced Monday. Big Blue will also use Univa's software internally on its grid projects, according to a company executive. The announcement will be made at the GridWorld show in Boston running Oct. 3-6. October 3, 4:05 a.m. PDT Minister: Netherlands to be digital gateway to Europe Long the physical gateway to continental Europe by sea or by air, the Netherlands is now positioning itself as the digital portal to the region. That's the pitch of the country's Minister for Foreign Trade Karien van Gennip. She points to the statistic that the Netherlands is poised to overtake South Korea as the most wired nation by the end of this year as well as her country's existing strengths in grid computing, embedded systems, and nanotechnology. September 28, 4:31 a.m. PDT Univa's $8M to help speed its commercial grid software Open-source grid software startup Univa has secured $8 million in venture capital backing, the U.S. company announced Monday. Univa plans to use the money to accelerate the development of a commercial version of its software as well as to double its headcount, according to the company's head. August 22, 9:37 a.m. PDT Platform Computing preps grid foundation Platform Computing Inc. wants to make the foundation on which enterprise computing grids are built. At the LinuxWorld show in San Francisco on Monday, the company began discussing a new platform it's developing to offer customers a centralized management system for disparate applications running across an enterprise grid. August 8, 11:11 a.m. PDT Farewell, CTO Connection If you haven’t checked out this week’s columns yet, let me be the one to break the bad news: Chad Dickerson is hanging up his InfoWorld CTO spurs and heading off to Yahoo, where he’ll be toiling away in the brave new world of search. August 8, 5:00 a.m. PDT IBM offers starter pack for grid computing IBM plans to unwrap a bundle of software, hardware and services called Grid and Grow at the LinuxWorld show in San Francisco on Monday. The company hopes the bundle will act as a starter pack for mid-size and large companies wanting to move into grid computing, according to an IBM executive. August 8, 4:23 a.m. PDT Industry group identifies grid security risks The Enterprise Grid Alliance, which includes several top vendors trying to accelerate the use of grid computing by big businesses, has published its first paper on the unique security requirements of grids, it said on Monday. July 25, 7:32 a.m. PDT Today's forecast calls for good chance of RAIN So I've got this theory. I believe I've mentioned it here before. The theory holds that Microsoft's stranglehol- …er, um, dominance in the corporate desktop OS market is largely due to Office and its market share. June 30, 5:00 a.m. PDT EGA hammers out grid interoperability reference model The Enterprise Grid Alliance published a reference model for grid computing on Tuesday. The alliance hopes the model will make it easier for businesses to make use of grid computing in their data centers. May 10, 10:52 a.m. PDT Peering into the Big Blue haze As Lenovo completes its acquisition of IBM’s PC division, I’m set to squirt a few more tears for lost future generations of ThinkPad excellence. Rumor has it, however, that there’s still at least one generation of Big Blue-manufactured Thinkies on the way, and among these we may even find a tablet. Yowza! May 5, 5:00 a.m. PDT Sun stumbles with grid rollout Sun Microsystems has delayed the rollout of the Sun Grid, an Internet-based "utility" service that has been under development since late last year. A lack of computing resources has pushed back the public launch of Sun Grid, originally slated to go live in the first few months of 2005, to as late as July, Sun executives said. May 3, 8:37 a.m. PDT Sun to unveil first fruits of scaled-back N1 plan Sun Microsystems plans to announce new N1 Grid software next week for managing and provisioning groups of servers in a data center, a company executive said. The product reflects a strategy to scale back Sun's original N1 plan and focus on managing Sun hardware only. April 29, 8:51 a.m. PDT HP exec cites open source, commercial mix SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Rather than IT shops settling on one paradigm, mixed environments of commercial and open source software will prevail, Hewlett-Packard CTO and Chief Strategy Officer Shane Robison said Wednesday during a keynote presentation at the Software 2005 conference here. April 27, 1:44 p.m. PDT HP turns to Linux for enterprise NAS Hewlett Packard is readying a new enterprise-quality NAS (network attached storage) device that will be based on the Linux operating system and managed using the company's StorageWorks Grid architecture, according to an HP executive. April 6, 8:54 a.m. PDT Comdex canceled again this year MediaLive International is canceling the Las Vegas Comdex trade show for another year because it has not yet been able to rebuild the event, the company said. March 30, 10:52 a.m. PST CERN readies world's biggest science grid If the Large Hadron Collider at CERN is to yield miraculous discoveries in particle physics, it may also require a small miracle in grid computing. March 21, 7:55 a.m. PST Sun pitches grid vision to Europe HANOVER, GERMANY --Vendors are tripping over themselves to tell customers about their grids, a top Sun Microsystems executive said Thursday, shortly before launching into a presentation on his own company's grid vision. March 10, 9:18 a.m. PST Fujitsu-Siemens to add Solaris to FlexFrame HANOVER, GERMANY -- IT managers using Fujitsu-Siemens Computers' FlexFrame architecture for managing SAP software will soon be able to add servers based on the Solaris operating system to their networks, Fujitsu-Siemens executives said Wednesday at Cebit. March 9, 8:01 a.m. PST Sun flips switch on grids Sun Microsystems expanded on its plan to offer gridlike computing resources at the rate of $1 per CPU, per hour, including storage at the rate of $1 per gigabyte, per month. It will also offer grid-based desktop and developer products in the year ahead. February 4, 3:00 p.m. PST OSDL panel: Challenges ahead for utility computing BURLINGAME, Calif. -- Utility computing may be one of the hottest topics in the technology industry these days, but there is much work to be done before it will ever achieve widespread acceptance, a panel of industry experts agreed Wednesday. February 3, 4:40 a.m. PST Sun flips switch on new grid products SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Sun Microsystems has expanded on its plan to offer grid-like computing resources at the rate of $1 per CPU per hour, saying that it plans to offer a complete line of Sun Grid products, including storage at the rate of $1 per gigabyte per month. It will also offer grid-based desktop and developer products in the year ahead. February 2, 4:52 a.m. PST Sun to unveil new Grid group, products next week Sun Microsystems has formed a new business unit chartered with developing a line of grid computing products that the company plans to unveil at an event being held next Tuesday at the company's Santa Clara, California headquarters. January 28, 4:35 a.m. PST Nationwide builds premium grid In most applications, the power of modern processors has almost eliminated concerns about computational performance. But according to Srinivas Koushik, enterprise CTO of Nationwide, financial companies don’t have it quite so easy. “Insurance and financial services companies — one thing they have a lot of is data,” Koushik says. “We’re constantly mining for information.” November 12, 3:00 p.m. PST Fiorina: Sometimes IT spending is a 'bad thing' Not expecting a rush of IT spending during the last three months of 2004, Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Carly Fiorina said Thursday that IT buyers have become smarter and more discriminating in their IT purchasing than they were just five years ago, and that they now realize that technology spending can sometimes be a "bad thing." September 24, 4:32 a.m. PDT NEC begins grid computing trial with Mazda Motors NEC Corporation is to provide Mazda Motor Corp. with an experimental grid computing system that will undergo testing in 2005, the companies said today. If the tests are successful, NEC hopes to become a major grid computing systems vendor to large enterprises in Japan and internationally, the company said. September 13, 4:59 a.m. PDT Oracle aims for users from start to grid LONDON -- Enterprise software giant Oracle Corp. may be known for big plans and bold moves but when it comes to capturing the European market the Redwood Shores, California, company has realized it also has to think small. September 7, 8:39 a.m. PDT Oracle touts grid computing to open show LONDON -- Oracle Corp. rang in the first day of its OpenWorld European conference series on Monday by touting the growth of grid computing in Europe, followed with the main news of the day: the release of E-Business Suite Version 11i.10. September 7, 4:40 a.m. PDT Aliens evaded, OneNote inflated I finally met a great gal using an online matchmaker. Smart, cute, funny, a bit of a geek but with good teeth. We even set up a dinner date — for June 2011, when she’s up for parole (prisoninmates.com). Until then, I’ll have to take comfort from the Cringe faithful, even when they write to tell me I’m wrong. August 13, 3:00 p.m. PDT NEC grid middleware keeps applications under control Researchers at NEC Corp. have developed a prototype middleware system for grid computing environments that is capable of controlling the hardware and network and the applications and services that are running on data center servers. July 12, 4:51 a.m. PDT Sun's N1 blade management software shows potential The foundation of Sun’s autonomic computing initiatives is N1, a set of applications that enables utility computing — that is, where applications can be dynamically configured via software. N1 is still very much a work in progress; nevertheless, one part that’s soon to ship is called N1 Provisioning Server Blades Edition. July 9, 3:00 p.m. PDT HP lifts lid on its grid work When it comes to leading the grid computing charge, Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) may not be the first vendor to spring to mind, but the company hopes that will change this week when it unveils new project wins and technologies at the International Supercomputing Conference in Heidelberg, Germany. June 23, 4:44 a.m. PDT IBM brings grid to software vendors Seven independent software vendors (ISVs), including Citrix Systems Inc. and Cognos Inc., have been the first to take advantage of an IBM Corp. program designed to help bridge the gap between commercial software vendors and the world of grid computing. June 16, 3:24 p.m. PDT HP adds Lustre to cluster offerings Hewlett-Packard Co. plans to become the first major vendor to offer a product based on the open source Lustre file system when it unveils a turnkey product based on Lustre at the International Supercomputing Conference in Heidelberg, Germany, on June 23, the company said. June 15, 6:15 p.m. PDT NSF middleware initiative goes beyond science BOSTON - A multifaceted, federally funded initiative aimed at developing and deploying open-source, open-standards middleware and services so that scientists can share data and collaborate on research has released the fifth version of its software, as the effort spreads into corporate use and beyond U.S. borders. May 28, 2:09 p.m. PDT IBM delivers On Demand services For ISVs Practicing what it preaches as part of its On Demand gospel, IBM on Thursday announced a new grid-based program that allows developers to virtually access a range of hardware and software resources on an on-demand basis to build and sell solutions. May 27, 8:00 a.m. PDT IBM uses own grid technology for ISV program IBM Corp. on Thursday will roll out a new program based on grid computing technology that will give independent software vendors (ISVs) greater access to IBM hardware for development and testing of their applications. May 27, 4:44 a.m. PDT IBM, HP, MS discuss autonomic computing strategies IBM Corp., Microsoft Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Co. set aside their rivalry Tuesday to share the stage at the first International Conference on Autonomic Computing in New York, at which representatives from the three companies mapped out fairly similar and harmonious strategies for working toward self-managing IT systems. May 19, 3:36 p.m. PDT IBM unveils virtualization technology IBM's Systems and Technology Group has introduced its Virtualization Engine, which allows a Unix-based system to be partitioned just like a mainframe, enabling it to run as many as 10 servers per processor. April 28, 3:00 a.m. PDT Interview: The changing politics of grid Grid computing is a noteworthy topic, particularly this week, with formation of the Enterprise Grid Alliance by Oracle, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, and others. April 21, 3:00 p.m. PDT Grid vendors launch interoperability effort Several of the IT industry's biggest vendors have formed a group called the Enterprise Grid Alliance to promote grid computing in the enterprise. Their goal is to boost the adoption of grid computing by hammering out technology specifications that allow customers to mix and match products from a variety of suppliers. April 20, 8:56 a.m. PDT BEA, Sun advance Java app servers BEA systems and Sun Microsystems advanced their Java application servers last week, while Oracle pushed its Java development environment for grid enablement. April 16, 3:00 p.m. PDT Oracle touts grids, SOAs with developer tool Oracle on Wednesday will ship Oracle JDeveloper 10g, which is a version of its Java and Web services development environment that the company says features grid enablement and support for SOAs (service-oriented architectures). April 14, 5:00 a.m. PDT Grids at forefront of cluster show ClusterWorld Conference & Expo might as well have been dubbed GridWorld, given the tenor of discussions at the San Jose, Calif., event last week. Keynote speeches from grid expert Ian Foster and Andrew Mendelsohn, senior vice president of database and server technologies at Oracle, capped the event by placing grid computing center stage. April 9, 3:00 p.m. PDT Oracle awaiting grid database upgrades San Jose, Calif. - Oracle anticipates a spur in user upgrades to its grid-enabled Oracle Database 10g this June, when the first patch set will be released for the new system, an Oracle official said Wednesday. April 7, 3:30 p.m. PDT New EU grid project has international aspirations The European Union (E.U.) is advancing its grid computing plans with the launch Thursday of a new project to establish a service grid infrastructure throughout Europe for scientific and industrial research and development. April 1, 9:21 a.m. PST Grid computing puts licensing in limbo Licensing models and grid computing are about to collide. Don't take my word for it, though. Read what Larry Ellison said to me when I interviewed him last month. February 6, 3:00 p.m. PST HP loses its way, Dell ports don't play I’ve been so busy wrestling worms lately I almost missed the news about Billy Gates’ honorary knighthood. His first order of business was to offer 250,000 gold sovereigns to the first brave soul to slay the Mydoom dragon. I understand Sir Bill then mounted his mighty steed Clippy and galloped off to a jousting tournament with Lord Lawrence of Oracle. What I want to know is, where’s my honorary title? I think I’m overdue, don’t you? February 6, 3:00 p.m. PST Adobe to add grid features to desktop app Adobe Systems Inc. is preparing a version of its After Effects Professional software that will be able to run across a group of computers in order to boost performance, bringing the concept of grid computing to a commercial desktop application for perhaps the first time. February 2, 5:11 a.m. PST Globus details roadmap for toolkit SAN FRANCISCO - The Globus Alliance in March plans to release an updated version of its Globus Toolkit for grid computing, adding performance, reliability and usability improvements and bug fixes since the 3.0 release last year, the group's co-leader said Wednesday. January 22, 12:27 p.m. PST IBM proposes convergence of Web services, grid computing SAN FRANCISCO -- IBM and several other vendors on Tuesday unveiled three specifications intended to converge Web services and grid computing. January 20, 1:15 p.m. PST Taking a serious look at grids Whatever future there is for business applications of grid computing, it won’t be shaped by technology. Business attitudes must change to embrace the technology that already exists. This is a classic example of technology that’s crucial to business having its uptake delayed by an apparent lack of demand. It isn’t a solution looking for a problem; there are plenty of existing problems to go after with grids and similar approaches to distributed computing. What sticks in the minds of many IT professionals is that grids are useful to science and academia, therefore they are likely to be too esoteric for business computing. January 16, 3:00 p.m. PST IT in transition Big changes are brewing in information technology and this issue offers several fascinating glimpses into why. January 16, 3:00 p.m. PST Veritas to buy Ejasent for $59 million Storage software maker Veritas Software Corp. has agreed to acquire application virtualization technology developer Ejasent Inc. for $59 million in cash, Veritas said Wednesday. January 7, 8:21 a.m. PST Survey: Interest in grid computing grows One in five companies may deploy grid technology during the next two years, according to a survey of some 550 database administrators and developers by Evans Data Corp. January 7, 5:11 a.m. PST Utility on tap for 2004 In the year ahead, Sun Microsystems, IBM, and Hewlett-Packard will bolster their utility-computing initiatives by upgrading key products. January 5, 6:00 a.m. PST > Hardware > Networking |
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