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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION
FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY /
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Systems/Enterprise:
INFORMATICA JOINS GGF TO ESTABLISH
GRID BEST PRACTICES
Informatica Corp, a leading provider of data integration and business
intelligence software, announced that it has joined the Global Grid Forum
(GGF), a 5,000-plus member consortium dedicated to researching and
implementing Grid-computing technology. The GGF membership strengthens
Informatica's Grid-computing initiative as the company focuses on integrating
this technology into its data integration and business intelligence
solutions.
"The Global Grid Forum is working to establish a firm foundation for
current
and future Grid-computing initiatives around the world," said Steve Crumb,
executive director at GGF. "With Informatica's membership, the GGF can benefit
from the company's extensive expertise and continue to develop high-quality
data integration best practices and standards."
"Grid-computing technology can help increase efficiencies and reduce the
cost
of computing networks by decreasing data-processing time, optimizing resources
and distributing workloads," said Sanjay Poonen, senior vice president of
worldwide marketing for Informatica. "Our membership with the Global Grid
Forum enables Informatica to share information and best practices with
industry-leading experts in Grid computing in order to build upon our current
Grid capabilities, and help shape Grid computing's role in the data
integration industry."
Grid-computing technology employs groups of locally or remotely networked
machines to work together on specific computational projects. Informatica is
delivering elements of Grid computing in the newest release of its data
integration platform, Informatica PowerCenter 7. PowerCenter 7 leverages
server-Grid technology to optimize costs, increase availability and maximize
performance for data integration across heterogeneous servers.
GGF is a community-initiated forum comprised of thousands of individual
researchers and practitioners working on distributed computing, or "Grid"
technologies. GGF's primary objective is to accelerate the creation,
deployment and implementation of Grid technologies and applications via "best
practices" -- technical specifications, user experiences and implementation
guidelines. For more information, see www.ggf.org/.
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