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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION
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Special Features:
GRID ESCALATES AS IT INVESTMENT
PRIORITY
New survey results released today show that Grid computing has emerged as
the
sixth highest IT investment priority for 2004, ahead of Web services, ERP,
telecommunications, CRM and outsourcing.
The study surveyed over 100 IT decision makers from global organizations to
identify IT investment priorities for 2004, and learned that Grid computing
has escalated as a high priority IT investment. Two key factors cited for this
increase are expected return on investment (ROI) and less internal politics
over Grid ownership.
Web services, utility computing, .NET, CPU harvesting and distributed
computing are just a few of the technologies that fall under the Grid
computing umbrella. Gt04 -- a premiere enterprise Grid computing conference
targeting industrial and commercial users -- will gather experts, and outline
strategies and road maps for Grid deployment. For more information, visit
www.gt04.com.
Grid computing is here!
A primary factor that impacted Grid's ranking as a high priority IT
investment
is the perceived ROI of Grid. Respondents gave Grid computing the
second-highest ranking for delivering anticipated ROI, ahead of other
technology investments including outsourcing, security, hardware, data
networks and storage, and bested only by e-business systems. This reinforces
Grid's ability to drive capital and operational costs down and improve
profitability, while simultaneously improving service levels across the
enterprise, accelerating application performance, and enabling companies to
deploy applications faster.
The survey also found that Grid investment has increased faster in
organizations where politics are perceived as less of a barrier to deployment.
In fact, 43 percent of respondents said that "server-hugging" -- an
unwillingness to share IT resources -- has become less prohibitive than
revealed in ealier studies.
According to recent analyst reports, industry momentum for Grid computing
continues to build. Analyst firms expect Grid to play an increasingly
important role during the next three years, as more companies adopt Grid
computing technologies.
This new survey was released today by Platform Computing.
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