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7 STEPS TO SUCCESSFUL GRID COMPUTING

INTERVIEW WITH WOLFGANG GENTZSCH OF MCNC

BLATECKY LEAVES SDSC, BECOMES RENCI DEPUTY DIRECTOR

Special Features

BLATECKY LEAVES SDSC, BECOMES RENCI DEPUTY DIRECTOR: Alan R. Blatecky, an expert in Grid computing, middleware, advanced networking and research program development, will join the interdisciplinary Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) as deputy director, effective May 10.
LEADING GRID COMPUTING EXPERT WOLFGANG GENTZSCH JOINS MCNC: As managing director of MCNC's Grid Computing & Networking Services company, Gentzsch will direct MCNC's Grid strategy and technology development, including the development of one of the nation's first statewide research and education Grids.
INTERVIEW WITH WOLFGANG GENTZSCH OF MCNC By Alan Beck, Editor-In-Chief: Managing director of MCNC's Grid Computing & Networking Services company, Wolfgang Gentzsch, speaks to GRIDtoday Editor-In-Chief Alan Beck about Gentzsch's departure from Sun, his current position at MCNC, and the outlook for the Grid computing industry in general.
7 STEPS TO SUCCESSFUL GRID COMPUTING By Brooklin J. Gore, Senior Fellow, Micron Technology Inc: This report, along with two other new, groundbreaking Grid reports from IDC and the Economic Strategy Institute will be released at Gt'04 and included with conference registration. www.gridtoday.com/04/conference/index.html.
GRIDBUS PROJECT STATUS REPORT: In this article, we present an overview and status of an open source Grid toolkit, called Gridbus, the architecture of which is fundamentally driven by the requirements of Grid economy. Gridbus technologies provide services for both computational and data Grids that power the emerging eScience and eBusiness applications.
TOP VENDOR REPS MEET AT SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT 2004: A panel consisting of representatives from Oracle, Sun, BEA, Microsoft, IBM and eWEEK magazine discussed a range of topics specifically related to the relationship between XML and SQL at Software Development 2004.
DEFINING A CONCEPT FOR EXTENDING NETWORK SYSTEMS, SERVICES By K.S. Venkatram: In this article, I will proceed with the related Nth'Connection Core Engineering, Interaction with Open Universal Technology Stations/Servers, effectiveness in working with remote services and systems.

Systems/Enterprise

CASSATT CORP NAMES RICHARD GREEN EVP OF PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT: Green, who will lead global development efforts at Cassatt, joins the company from Sun Microsystems Inc where he served most recently as vice president of Sun Developer Platforms and Java Software.
CISCO UNVEILS BUSINESS READY DATA CENTER INITIATIVE: Business Ready Data Center provides the solutions, services, partners and tested architectural design and deployment guides that allow customers to protect applications and information, share computing and storage resources and support emerging service-oriented architectures.
MICROSOFT, MICRO FOCUS FORM MAINFRAME MIGRATION ALLIANCE: The alliance lays the technology foundation to move application workloads from the mainframe to more modern Intel architecture and the Windows Server platform. It aims to help customers reduce the high cost of maintaining and modernizing their aging mainframe environments.
UTILITY COMPUTING COMES TO DATA CENTERS: Troux Technologies, a leading provider of strategic IT management (ITM) software, announced that it has joined the Data Center Markup Language (DCML) Organization.In addition to joining the organization, Troux will fully support DCML in the Troux Reference Model.
VERITAS, BEA DELIVER OPEN UTILITY PLATFORM FOR ENTERPRISE APPS: The joint offering is slated to include versions of VERITAS Indepth for J2EE application performance management software, VERITAS Cluster Server high availability solution and VERITAS OpForce server provisioning software integrated with BEA WebLogic and Tuxedo platforms.

Applications

BEA, ACCENTURE JOIN FORCES TO UNTANGLE WEB SPRAWL: The eCommerce and Portal Rationalization offering is designed to reduce the complexity that hinders companies from achieving among other things, increased visibility into real-time business performance and improved customer service.
COLLATION LAUNCHES CONFIGNIA 2.0: The new product release builds on Collation's patent pending agent-free auto-discovery engine, built-in Data Center Reference Model, and innovative user interface to provide IT Operations personnel with complete top-down understanding of applications and their infrastructures.
GAS PORTFOLIO OPTIMIZATION ENHANCED WITH NEWENERGY VECTORGAS: VectorGas is powered by an advanced Monte Carlo engine, linear programming techniques and NewEnergy's Grid computing technology, which efficiently harnesses multiple processors for fast run times.

Breaking News

Security: NetScreen In 'Leader Quadrant' Of Gartner Report
XWall Web Services Firewall Adds Protection To Oracle 10g
GTSI Joins NetBotz Partner Program
Nat'l Cyber Security Partnership Releases Industry Framework
NetScreen Raises Bar With Next-Generation Security Platform
Platforms: New Processors Drive Lower Cost Intel Itanium 2-Based Systems
Networking: Chiaro Networks Expands Asian Presence To South Korea
Foundry Introduces Industry-Leading Load Balancing Switches
Internet Photonics Utilizes NextHop GateD Technology
Inkra Licenses NextHop's GateD NGC 2.x Routing Software
Packeteer Introduces PacketShaper 9500
RADCOM Intros Next-Gen Analyzer For Multi-Service Networks
Radware Awarded Patent For Load Balancing Technology
SAVVIS To Provide IT Services For Boston Options Exchange
Momentum Building For Silicom's Gigabit Ethernet Adapters
New Spamhaus-Backed Proposal Could Take Bite Out Of Spam

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: NetApp Moves To Storage Grids
Operating Systems & Middleware: Oracle JDeveloper 10g Enhances Grid Architectures
Oracle 10g Bests MS SQL Server 2000 In Head-To-Head Test
TurboWorx Announces Enterprise 4.0
General: Verari Systems Acquires MPI Software Technology

Quote Of The Week

"Grid computing was always supported by Sun's executive team. Indeed, internally, we reshaped Sun CEO Scott McNealy's famous quote, 'The network is the computer,' into, 'The Grid is the computer.'" -- Wolfgang Gentzsch, Managing Director, MCNC

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