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GRID ESCALATES AS IT INVESTMENT PRIORITY
IBM: OPEN SOURCE IS KEY FOR INNOVATION, INTEGRATION
GridTalk: AN AUDIO INTERVIEW WITH UD'S PAUL KIRCHOFF
Special Features
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WINNERS OF 'ON THE ROAD TO A GIGABIT' AWARDS ANNOUNCED
- The On the Road to a Gigabit awards showcase the pioneering ideas of
today's visionaries and the promise of tomorrow's Internet, as well as
highlight the technologies paving the road to a gigabit world.
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GRID ESCALATES AS IT INVESTMENT PRIORITY
- New survey results show that Grid computing has emerged as the sixth
highest IT investment priority for 2004, ahead of Web services, ERP,
telecommunications, CRM and outsourcing.
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GridTalk: AN AUDIO INTERVIEW WITH UD'S PAUL KIRCHOFF
By Marc Strassman
- Paul Kirchoff is vice president of marketing and business development at
United Devices, a leading company in the Grid computing space. In this Jan.
21 interview, he starts off the GridTalk interview series with a general and
wide-ranging discussions of Grid computing.
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NORTH AMERICAN IPv6 TASK FORCE KICKS OFF NEXT PHASE OF Moonv6
- Moonv6 phase II will continue to provide the North American market with
strong validation for Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6), through
demonstrating IPv6's effectiveness under operative conditions, and
ultimately launch a native IPv6 backbone available for peering from anywhere
in the world.
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THIS WEEK'S BRIEF ANALYSES OF RECENT GRIDtoday NEWS ITEMS
By Rolf McClellan
- Following are brief evaluations of recent news stories from GRIDtoday.
Rolf McClellan has nearly 20 years of experience in the network and computer
industry.
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DEFINING A CONCEPT FOR EXTENDING RNFS SERVICES
By K.S.Venkatram
- This article will describe the specification that extends effectiveness in
working with remote file systems. We will look at basic interfaces and
platforms known to enable file systems across various mappings and
connection points.
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IBM: OPEN SOURCE IS KEY FOR INNOVATION, INTEGRATION
- IBM's vice president of Technology and Strategy, Irving Wladawsky-Berger,
is arguing that the next phase of innovative technology greatly depends on
the adoption rate of open source software.
Systems/Enterprise
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AT&T WebService CONNECT LEVERAGES UBIQUITY OF WEB
- AT&T WebService Connect leverages the ubiquity of the Web to help
companies and government agencies easily and securely connect, create, share
and manage business processes and applications with their suppliers and
customers.
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IBM ANNOUNCES SUPPORT FOR GERMAN D-GRID INITIATIVE
- The initiative, which was presented by German science minister Edelgard
Bulmahn, has been formed to build a nationwide Grid infrastructure across
the whole of Germany.
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DMTF, BLADE SYSTEMS ALLIANCE ANNOUNCE AGREEMENT
- Under the agreement, the two organizations will work to help strengthen
and speed the implementation of DMTF's server management and utility
computing standards using the DMTF's Common Information Model.
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LINDOWS ADDS P2P SERVERS TO CORPORATE INFRASTRUCTURE
- By utilizing a P2P architecture, bandwidth rates are greatly reduced. In
addition to the bandwidth savings, hosting infrastructure (servers,
firewalls, routers, etc.) can be postponed or even eliminated.
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ORACLE ASSURES LOCAL CUSTOMERS OF SMOOTH MIGRATION TO 10g
- Oracle has worked with industry storage leaders such as EMC, Hitachi, HP,
Network Appliance and Xiotech to enable ASM to work seamlessly with their
network attached storage (NAS) and storage area network (SAN) offerings.
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CITY OF CAMBRIDGE BOOSTS IT OUTPUT WITH UTILITY COMPUTING
- Cambridge, Mass., has slashed the time it takes to identify and cope with
problematic database transactions by 92 percent after enlisting VERITAS
Indepth for SQL Server application performance management software in its
PeopleSoft implementation.
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VOLTAIRE SECURES $15 MILLION IN FUNDING
- Baker Capital, Pitango Venture Capital and new investor Vertex Venture
Capital led the oversubscribed round. Existing investors Platinum Venture
Capital, Tamir Fishman Ventures and The Challenge Fund also participated.
Applications
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BDO SEIDMAN SELECTS CORIO APPLICATIONS ON DEMAND
- Corio Applications on Demand is a service that delivers enterprise
applications from leading independent software vendors. Customers "pay-as-
you-go" and avoid expensive upfront project and infrastructure costs.
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SEAGULL EXPANDS MAINFRAME INTEGRATION OPTIONS WITH VIASERV
- The ViaSQL product line, which will be marketed by Seagull Software
worldwide as LegaSuite products, offers direct SQL access to both relational
and non-relational data sources for z/OS, OS/390 and VSE environments,
including DB2, VSAM, SQL/DS, IMS, DL/1, IDMS, Datacom, Adabas, Sequential
and more.
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TSUNAMI RESEARCH ANNOUNCES HiveCreator 2.0
- By linking groups of dedicated commodity-class computers into a
self-healing, self-organizing and self-managing application fabric,
HiveCreator allows enterprises to deploy their mission-critical applications
in a manner that is simultaneously highly reliable and extremely scalable.
Breaking News
- Security
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BMC, RSA To Provide Comprehensive Access Management Solution
Forum Systems Awarded DoD-PKI Certification
Kasten Chase Releases Assurency CipherShare 3.0
SecureD Announces Managed Service Provider Alliance Program
DynaTraX Excites Convention Goers At IBM Innovation Forum
- Platforms
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HP Targets Growing Markets With Ultra-dense Blade
RLX Announces Support For Intel Xeon Processors
Samsung Joins Alliance With IBM, Chartered, Infineon
3UP Systems Announces First Ultra-Dense Blade Server
- Networking
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GigaBeam Offers Fiber Alternative Technology
Hexago Migration Broker Wins IPv6 Ready Logo
Industry Leaders Announce Initiative To Create Mobile TLD
Mysticom, Siemon Extend 10 GbE For Data Center Applications
Opal-RT Technologies Introduces SignalWire
CALL FOR SPEAKERS
GRID TODAY 2004 (Gt04) -- the first major conference and exhibition
to focus on the emerging market for commercial business
applications of Grid computing, has issued a Call for Speakers
We are looking for high-level speakers from
commercial organizations to speak on
applications and implementation of Grid computing
- Storage
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Dell Server Storage Configurations Maximize Resources
Exanet, KPG Enter Into Agreement For Distribution Of ExaStore
- Operating Systems & Middleware
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Candle Introduces PathWAI Performance Optimization Solutions
IBM, Dassault Systèmes Reinforce Partnership
Java Community Process Gets Transparency, Flexibility Boost
Meiosys Leads Multi-Million Dollar European Project
Opsware Introduces Automated Asset Discovery, Tracking
Japanese Linux Distributor, IP Telecom, Joins OSDL
Pukka Software Releases VirtualAD For Active Directories
Topspin Server Switch Enables Diskless Servers
VERITAS, BearingPoint To Offer New App Performance Services
- General
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AMI Showcases BIOS, IPMI, KVM Over IP Blade Technologies
Grid Computing: Revolutionizing IT Methods
Quote Of The Week
"Most content companies view P2P as evil, but there are phenomenal commercial applications." -- Michael Robertson, CEO, Lindows Inc.
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