
DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY / MAY 12, 2003: VOL. 2 NO. 19
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GRID MAY FUEL NEXT IT BOOM

MICROSOFT AND HP DEVELOP DYNAMIC DATA CENTER PROTOTYPE

IBM PUSHES NEW PRODUCTS, PROGRAMS FOR ON-DEMAND E-BUSINESS

Special Features

SHAKING THINGS UP WITH NEESgrid By Tom Garritano: One of the GRIDS Center's target communities is NEES, the George Brown, Jr., Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation. Funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), NEES is a distributed virtual laboratory for earthquake experimentation and modeling. Its users are researchers who seek to design buildings and other structures that are more resistant to seismic events and disasters in general.
MICROSOFT AND HP DEVELOP DYNAMIC DATA CENTER PROTOTYPE: In his keynote address at the 12th annual Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC), Bill Gates, chairman and chief software architect at Microsoft Corp., will showcase a concept of a Dynamic Data Center (DDC) jointly developed with HP.
IBM PUSHES NEW PRODUCTS, PROGRAMS FOR ON-DEMAND E-BUSINESS By William Fellows for the451.com: IBM has staked its future on the ability to create on-demand e-businesses that are cheaper to run and maintain, better utilized and able to more quickly adapt to changing business requirements.
GRID MARKETS ADOPT SUN'S JINI TECHNOLOGY: Sun Microsystems, Inc. announced that Jini technology is being successfully applied to help solve the dynamic networking problems of customers in a wide range of emerging and evolving markets.
GRID MAY FUEL NEXT IT BOOM: Computer Associates International, Inc. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Sanjay Kumar predicted that new "macro technologies" such as on-demand computing along with upgrade and system replacements will drive future customer capital spending.

Systems/Enterprise

IBM UNVEILS NEW ON DEMAND OFFERINGS: IBM has unveiled a new set of offerings as part of its on demand operating environment designed to link customer business objectives and computing resources.
SUN TO DEPLOY UPGRADED INTEGRATION SERVER: Sun Micro is set to deploy a revamped Sun ONE Integration Server by the fourth quarter. Full product availability is expected by early 2004.
CA UNVEILS NEW AND ENHANCED UNICENTER MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS: Computer Associates International, Inc. (CA) announced the local launch of Unicenter's new vision -- "Managing On-demand Computing" in Hong Kong with support of the new and enhanced Unicenter management solutions designed to manage complex and heterogeneous infrastructure.
VERITAS SOFTWARE TURNS UTILITY COMPUTING VISION INTO REALITY: VERITAS Software Corporation Chairman, president and CEO Gary Bloom outlined plans at the company's annual user conference to enable utility computing through its market-leading heterogeneous software.

Scientific Applications

BROADCOM TO DELIVER TCP/IP OFFLOAD TECHNOLOGY: Broadcom Corporation announced that the company is working extensively with Microsoft Corporation to develop new networking technologies designed to dramatically improve the performance of enterprise servers equipped with next-generation high-speed Ethernet adapters.
CENIC ANNOUNCES WINNERS OF ITS GIGABIT AWARDS: On May 7, 2003, CENIC will recognize the winners of its On the Road to a Gigabit Awards at an awards luncheon to be held at at the Fess Parker's Doubletree Resort in Santa Barbara, California.

Breaking News

Security: ALLnet Uses Finjan's SurfinGate Security Platform
Gates Quells Fears Over Security
Platforms: IBM Introduces New High-End eSERVER Systems
HP To Ship 1st Itanium 2 Boxes Running 64-bit Windows XP
Networking: BoostWorks Unveils BoostEdge BE200A Accelerator
Dell Confirms Commitment To Networking Business
Infineon Remains Committed To Framer/RPR Technology
Radware And Allasso Partner For Switching Solutions
The Tolly Group Announces IT Product Certification Program
Storage: VERITAS/Cisco Offer 1St Look At New Sto Networking Solution
Operating Systems & Middleware: FileMaker Wins Award For Best Numeric/Database Software
New IBM Software Lowers Costs While Increasing Peformance
OMG's 4th Annual Workshop On UML For Enterprise Applications
Oracle And Red Flag Form Linux Alliance In China
General: HP Hosts Grid Computing Symposium In Amsterdam
First HPC User Forum Meetings In Europe
Mobile Systems Verification Receives NIST Funding
Object Management Group To Meet In Paris
Former Sun VP Joins Silicon Bandwidth Board Of Directors
ClusterWorld Conf & Expo Announces New Industry Awards

Quote Of The Week

"The question isn't whether on-demand computing is a good idea. The question is how to make on-demand computing a reality." -- Sanjay Kumar, Chairman/CEO, Computer Associates

Conferences & Seminars

GRIDtoday notes events and highlights of industry-related conferences, exhibitions, meetings,etc.

GRID COMPUTING SYMPOSIUM
CUO/Interex/DECUS European Users Conference & Expo
May 20, 2003
The RAI Conference Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
www.hp-interex.org/conference2003/

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