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[Powers Unfiltered] Let me confess that I spent 20 years in or near the electric utility industry, and I know A LOT about utilities. SunGrid is not a utility. The “utility computing” analogy bothers me in general, and I don’t have nearly the time or energy to break it down fully, but the standards, reliability, infrastructure, training, and commitment are not there (anywhere in the IT industry, including Sun) to run a utility.
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[Blogs.sun.com] Rajesh Ramchandani's Weblog: what will it take to run my app on SunGrid aka Sun's utility computing platform. I think this is an opportunity to spend some time and discuss about what grid computing is, What are the dimensions of grid, What are critical management components of any grid, How does virtualization play a role in grid computing, What applications would benefit from grid computing, What tools, software and specifications exists to build grid -enabled applications and ofcourse what's Sun's strategy around Utility grid and grid computing in general.
[Utilitycomputing.com] On-Demand, Grid & Utility Computing Business Resources ...: Platform Computing announced Enterprise Grid Orchestrator (EGO), a grid platform designed to combine virtualization, automation and sharing of all IT resources to enterprise application. It makes use of under-utilized computing resources to improve application performance.The company aims to use the new business and technology strategy to drive widespread adoption of grid computing into the mainstream.
[Gridblog.com] Upcoming Events: By: Ovais Khan The Grid Development Tools (GDT) feature is a bundle of Eclipse Plugins useful for Service and Application Development in the Eclipse Integrated Development Environment. Apart from using GDT in the Eclipse Workbench interactively we support using Eclips headless, i.e.
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