Systems/Enterprise:
NEC DEVELOPS GRID MIDDLEWARE FOR DATA CENTERS
NEC Corp announced that it has succeeded in the development of Grid middleware
that enables autonomous resource allocation of services in response to dynamic
changes in service workloads. The middleware mainly focuses on commercial
enterprise IT systems (e.g. data centers) consisting of several resources,
such as servers, networks and services.
Achieving efficient utilization of all IT resources, and a reduction in system
operation costs, the Grid Middleware was enabled by the development of the
following new technologies:
- Policy-Based Unified Resource Management Technology Policy refers to the
collection of rules describing how to control resources according to monitored
results. The middleware achieves coordination of policies developed for
IT/Network resources and services in order to automatically decide optimal
resource utilization of the entire system intermittently.
- IT/Network Resource Virtualization Technology This capability allows system
administrators to describe high-level policies for system reconfiguration,
such as addition or removal of servers to/from the system, instead of
sequence, low-level specific operations for individual IT/Network hardware.
"The development of this innovative Grid Middleware technology is another
important step for NEC toward the realization of Grid computing," said Hiroshi
Katayama, general manager of NEC Internet Systems Research Laboratories. "NEC
hopes Grid computing will contribute to a variety of fields in the future,
such as application simulation in the medical field through acceleration of
calculation speeds, and reduction of enterprise business costs through optimal
allocation of resources."
NEC plans to incorporate the newly developed Grid middleware into NEC's VALUMO
product series combined with the results of the Business Grid Computing
Project that NEC is participating in, which is led by METI (Ministry of
Economy, Trade and Industry).
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