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DataSynapse Launches Innovative
GRIDesign Offering
DataSynapse Inc introduced GRIDesign, its patent-pending methodology to
help
companies determine how to successfully deploy a production Grid. DataSynapse
announced GRIDesign at Grid Today 2004.
Developed over 4,000 man-hours and scores of successful, strategic client
implementations, the rapid assessment and design protocol was specifically
designed to help companies understand how to establish a new IT
consumption/fulfillment model in which application services requirements are
virtualized and dynamically fulfilled over a Grid of shared system resources.
GRIDesign provides recommended next steps to help companies realize the
inherent advantages of a service-oriented, on demand infrastructure by
answering the following key questions:
- How can the organization create a real-time infrastructure to support
the
demands of the business with the supply of available resources?
- Which applications will yield maximum gain when integrated into a
virtual
operating environment?
- Which applications are easiest to Grid-enable?
- What is the true value opportunity for the enterprise?
- Where should the organization start?
"With GRIDesign, we now have a customized reference architecture and a
roadmap
that is helping us transform our IT infrastructure and improve application
performance," said Mark Cates, chief technology officer for Wachovia's
Corporate and Investment Bank. "As we continue to extend the bank's
service-oriented architecture, we rely on DataSynapse's solutions to guide and
serve as the foundation of our Grid computing initiatives."
Together, DataSynapse and IBM provide a range of products that virtualize
applications across the enterprise, improve server utilization and help
companies better fulfill their transactional requirements with idle IT
resources on a moment's notice.
"In a pilot program, IBM and DataSynapse are working together in the U.S.,
utilizing GRIDesign, to assist customers in more rapidly identifying the
business value of Grid computing," said Al Bunshaft, vice president of Grid
computing sales and business development for IBM.
How It Works
During a GRIDesign engagement, DataSynapse conducts structured analysis in
conjunction with targeted business users from key application and
infrastructure areas. Based on the GRIDesign assessment, DataSynapse provides
organizations with three unique deliverables:
- Application Roadmap
A detailed assessment and decision-tree scoring model is used to verify,
profile, score and validate value impact for each application. By mapping ease
of integration against business value, the Application Roadmap summary helps
the organization prioritize applications for integration.
- Strategic Reference Architecture
The Strategic Reference Architecture outlines the impact on the
organization's
stated and planned infrastructure directions and includes a conceptual,
functional and technical representation that incorporates the enabling
components of DataSynapse GridServer technology.
- Value Impact Assessment Summary
The Value Impact Assessment Summary provides the customer with a business
case
showing the financial benefits that can be accrued through an on demand
application infrastructure. These benefits include opportunities for cost
reduction and containment as well as identification of new revenue creation
potential that results from enhanced business productivity.
"Rather than viewing Grid deployments from a resource-centric view,
GRIDesign
takes a fundamentally different, top-down approach," said Tony Bishop, chief
business architect for DataSynapse and creator of GRIDesign. "By profiling the
enterprise's consumption patterns, or 'demand,' we can identify a new IT
consumption and fulfillment model in which application services requirements
are virtualized and dynamically fulfilled over an infinitely scalable pool of
system resources."
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