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Grid Technology Aids Hospital's Diagnostics: Doctors often need to balance the urgency of medical conditions with performing thorough analysis to arrive at an accurate diagnosis. Ideally, they'd like to do both. A doctor at the Children's Memorial Research Center in Chicago turned to data mining and grid technology to help his organization garner speedy research...; Tags: Hospital, Grid Computing, International Data Group, Data Mining, Business Intelligence, Marketing Research, Cloud Computing, Databases, It Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Marketing, It service Management; Case studies 2005-03-21
IBM Global Services for Grid Computing: One of the key benefits of implementing a grid computing solution is that it enables knowledge sharing. Leveraged knowledge is essential in development and production environments, and it's a significant component of becoming a true on demand business, for internal constituents as well as clients and suppliers. When all employees...; Tags: Grid Computing, IBM Corp., Cloud Computing, Utility Computing, It Management, Network Technology, It service Management, Networking; White papers 2004-07-01
Teamwork: Grid Computing Gets Diverse IT Networks to Behave as One: Crash testers at an automotive plant in Detroit are setting up a new, grid computing - based IT infrastructure that is intended to harness the power of company workstations in Europe and Asia. The infrastructure is designed to link together disparate computer processors to act as one powerful machine. While...; Tags: Car, Teamwork, Detroit, Information Technology, Grid Computing, Team Management, Cloud Computing, Utility Computing, It Management, Network Technology, Management, It service Management, Networking; White papers 2004-09-16
Grid Computing: Distributed Advantage: Executive Summary - The next generation of grid computing is being built today, and includes support for shared computing power, content management, applications and storage. Though initial applications are academic, the potential for business has already been recognized. It is widely believed that grid computing is inevitable, but the evolution...; Tags: Grid Computing, Cloud Computing, Utility Computing, It Management, Network Technology, It service Management, Networking; White papers 2001-11-13
How grid computing is speeding up the race for cures: Today's doctors need the ability to try out many options very quickly and throw out the bad ones just as quick-without the expense of testing. This article shows how doctors use the World Community Grid to harness the power of thousands of computers to produce results that can save lives....; Tags: Grid Computing, IBM Corp., Cloud Computing, Utility Computing, It Management, Network Technology, Productivity, It service Management, Networking; White papers 2008-05-01

Google joins smart grid coalition: Search engine giant Google is joined the Demand Response and Smart Grid Coalition DRSG, an industry group working to promote smart grid technology. Energy management firms CPower, Conservation Services Group and Corporate Systems Engineering are also joining the coalition. Smart...; Tags: Google Inc., Grid Computing, Cloud Computing, Utility Computing, It Management, Network Technology, It service Management, Networking, George Mitton, Google, Google.org, Itron; Articles 2008-11-14

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Electric Cloud and Platform Computing Team to Deliver Industry's First Grid-Enabled Software Build Accelerator; Partnership to Provide Greater Levels of Flexibility and Efficiency Within Build Environments: MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- Electric Cloud, leading provider of software build solutions, and Platform Computing, the global leader for grid computing solutions, today announced the development of an integration between Electric Cloud's software build acceleration product, ElectricAcceleratorTM, with Platform Computing's LSF family of products. This partnership creates the industry's only...; Tags: grid computing, software, environment, GRID, partnership, team; Research articles 2006-09-05
Fog Is Lifting On Cloud Computing: If you're tired of everyone and their mother claiming that theirs and theirs alone is the true incarnation of The Cloud, hope is at hand. The National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST has produced a working draft that defines various aspects of cloud computing, which may finally put a...; Tags: Cloud, Cloud Computing, Fog, Hardware, Infrastructure, Management, Michael Hickins, NIST, Strategy, Virtualization; Blog posts 2009-05-15
Appirio's Cloud Computing Map Aims to Clarify Ecosystem: The free-to-use map breaks out 70 different layers of technology across applications, platforms and infrastructure and presents it in grid form. For example, in the application sector, it spotlights market leaders such as SalesForce.com, GoogleApps, Amazon and IBM and clearly lays out all the features offered -- or not offered...; Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Google Apps, ecosystem, cloud computing, Salesforce.com Inc., Application Sector; News items 2009-11-16
How data security can vaporise in the cloud: While hosted cloud computing may be all the rage for reducing cost of ownership and management, IT managers say hosted storage services present dramatic security challenges and legal implications that need to be considered. Arthur Lessard, chief information security officer at toy manufacturer Mattel Inc., in El Segundo, Calif., said...; Tags: data, security, cloud computing; News items 2009-10-18
A Primer on Cloud Computing: The 'cloud' is touted as a repeat of the electric grid for technology, a way of shifting the burden of managing technology from a company's back. But cloud computing is still new, and not as easy as just flipping a switch. I just published this piece, When...; Tags: Technology, Cloud Computing, Michael Fitzgerald; Blog posts 2009-01-14
With Data Synapse, TIBCO Looks to Both Present and Future: TIBCO's acquisition of DataSynapse for a reported $28 million gives the company a development team and mature products with which to flesh out its TIBCO Silver cloud-computing platform and expand its financial-services revenue. The acquisition means two things to application development organizations. 1. TIBCO will use Data Synapse's technology to...; Tags: TIBCO Software Inc.; News items 2009-08-26
The Big Switcheroo, Part Two: Business thinkers may want to skip the second part of "The Big Switch." It's learned and interesting, but not very much about business -- at least, in the short term. In the long term, his speculative logic changes everything about society. The Universal Computer that will emerge from...; Tags: Human Resources, Review, Recruitment & Selection, Productivity, Workforce Management, Michael Fitzgerald; Blog posts 2008-06-03
News to know: Win7 exploit; Verizon-ATT Windows Marketplace; Nokia-Palm; Cisco-Tandberg: Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alertand RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage: Ryan Naraine: Microsoft confirms ‘detailed' Windows 7 exploit CNET: Hackers bypass Windows 7 activation Sam Diaz: Verizon to AT&T: "Our ads are true and the truth...; Tags: Nokia Corp., Microsoft Windows, Andrew Nusca, Larry Dignan, Sam Diaz, Mary Jo Foley; News items 2009-11-19
Storage vendor group forms cloud initiative: The Storage Networking Industry Association SNIA announced today the formation of the Cloud Storage Initiative CSI in order to establish a lexicon of cloud-computing terminology, publish use cases, white papers and technical specifications, and to create reference implementation models for grid-storage architectures.; Tags: lexicon, formation, terminology, Storage Networking Industry Association, Architecture; News items 2009-10-12
An Interview with Nick Carr: The future of business and how it runs has a lot to do with technology. One of the nation's leading thinkers on that future is Nick Carr. Here's an excerpt of an interview I did with Carr. I've also reviewed his book "The Big Switch". Fitzgerald:...; Tags: Nick Carr, Grid, Computing, Computing Grid, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Michael Fitzgerald; Blog posts 2008-09-19
How Data Centers Can Follow Energy Prices to Save Millions: Companies that own numerous data center operators across the globe could be able to save millions of dollars a year in electricity costs if they dynamically shifted computing power across their data centers to when and where energy prices are the cheapest. At least that's according to a study out...; Tags: energy, data center, Energy Price; News items 2009-08-19