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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY /
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Special Features:
GRID ADOPTION RISES 75% IN 6 MONTHS
Survey findings from Evans Data Corp's new Database Development Survey Summer
2004 show that Grid computing has risen by more than 75 percent in the past
six months. Thirty-seven percent of database developers are implementing or
planning to implement a Grid computing architecture.
"While we're still in the infancy of Grid computing, the technology looks very
promising for database sites struggling with capacity issues," said Joe
McKendrick, Evans' database analyst. "We just can't keep throwing more
hardware at the problem. Data warehouses, for example, will only keep getting
bigger. Companies can't afford to keep upgrading their systems and hardware to
support these massive repository and associated tools. Grid computing offers
an intelligent way for companies to better redeploy IT systems existing within
their enterprises."
In related data, 34 percent of companies are focusing their database
development work on Business Intelligence platforms, including OLAP, data
mining, and real-time analytics, an increase of nearly 30 percent in the past
year. One out of three database developers planning to use Grid technology
indicated that Business Intelligence software is the expected target for the
new computing architecture. The study also found that the recent increase in
IT budgets means more database developers and managers are concentrating on
Business Intelligence software.
Other findings from the Summer 2004 survey of more than 500 Database
developers and mangers:
- Ninety-three percent of organizations are now providing real-time access to
analytic data, an increase of 10 percent from six months ago.
- Forty-four percent of database developers are currently migrating or will
migrate to a 64-bit database within the next year, an increase of more than 60
percent in six months time.
- Mobile database development project starts have bounced back to 32 percent,
up 60 percent from the low during the IT slowdown.
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