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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION
FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY / SEPTEMBER 29, 2003: VOL. 2 NO. 39
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Systems/Enterprise:
UNITED DEVICES ANNOUNCES
GRID-COMPUTING AGREEMENT WITH IBM
United Devices, a market leader in secure Grid solutions, announced the
company has signed a master relationship agreement with IBM.
As part of this agreement, the companies will pursue joint marketing
activities and sales to customers in life sciences, oil and gas, government,
industrial engineering, financial services and several other important
markets. IBM and United Devices will collaborate to bring the benefits of Grid
computing to both large enterprise and mid-market customers in targeted
industries.
Together, both companies have deployed hardware and software solutions at
organizations such as Sanofi-Synthelabo, NTT Data and the University of
Purdue. United Devices offers IBM's DB2 database software as a standard
bundled offering with the Grid MP Enterprise platform. In addition, United
Devices plans to introduce a version of its software intended to run on IBM
eServer pSeries computers by the end of the year. The companies offer turnkey
IBM Grid solutions including eServer xSeries servers and Linux products.
"At Purdue, DB2 serves a wide variety of purposes," said David Moffett,
vice
president of research computing services at Purdue University. "It is the
underlying Linux database for our 2000+ host United Devices Grid/UD
deployment. This diversity of platforms with a common set of administration
tools reduces our training needs while providing a very capable database."
"This partnership follows a natural evolution in our relationship to take
enterprise Grid adoption to the next level," said United Devices' CEO, Ed
Hubbard. "We started using IBM servers and DB2 to run our global research at
Grid.org and followed that up with a large number of enterprise deployments.
Now, we have further solidified our relationship into a formal business
partnership to address the needs of our enterprise Grid customers."
The United Devices' Grid MP Platform is proven to be scaleable, manageable
and
secure on the largest general-purpose public Grid in the world at Grid.org and
has been optimized for deployment in corporate enterprises as well as hosted,
pay-per-use services. Companies using commercial or proprietary applications
can now achieve dramatic increases in speed and scope -- drastically improving
ROI and time to market.
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