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Special Features
- SUN'S NEW GRID GUY ADDRESSES 'FREE' SECURITY
By Derrick Harris, Editor
- Bjorn Andersson, Sun's new marketing manager for Grid computing,
discusses the future of Grid security and storage, as well as why we might not even be
talking about Grid a few years down the road.
- PITT, PSC JOIN NATIONAL LambdaRail
- The connection to NLR is implemented at PSC's Three Rivers Exchange
(formerly the Pittsburgh GigaPoP), a high-speed network crossroads
connecting regional academic institutions, businesses and government
agencies to next-generation, national network backbones such as NLR.
- TeraGrid ENTERS FULL PRODUCTION PHASE
- TeraGrid's unified user support infrastructure and software environment
allow users to access storage and information resources as well as over a
dozen major computing systems via a single allocation, either as
stand-alone resources or as components of a distributed application using Grid
software capabilities.
- INTEL, MS, SUN, OTHERS DRIVE WEB SERVICES SPECIFICATION
- AMD, Dell, Intel Corp, Microsoft Corp and Sun Microsystems Inc announced
the publication of Web Services Management (WS-Management), a Web services
specification that addresses the cost and complexity of IT management by
providing a common way for systems to access and exchange management
information across their entire IT systems.
- LEVEL 3 HELPS UNIVERSITIES CREATE FLORIDA LambdaRail
- Services from Level 3 Communications Inc are helping a consortium of nine
public and private Florida universities create a statewide
high-performance network to facilitate collaborative research and education in a full
spectrum of disciplines, including hurricane-related studies.
Systems/Enterprise
- VALEN, SUN TO DELIVER GRID SOLUTIONS FOR INSURANCE INDUSTRY
- Valen and Sun will jointly provide Valen's decision enabling software
running on a proven Jini technology-based Grid computing infrastructure.
By building decision models rapidly, these customers will have access to
up-to-date data, allowing them to retain a competitive edge and stay aligned
with shifting market conditions.
- APPRO INTRODUCES ON DEMAND COMPUTING FOR OIL/GAS INDUSTRY
- Customers now can use Appro Compute On Demand to contract for additional
capacity and services to meet the short-term computational requirements of
planned or unplanned peak workloads, new projects and new business
opportunities.
- NEW YORK BOARD OF TRADE IMPLEMENTS BEA-POWERED SOA
- The system, powered by BEA WebLogic Server, can enable automatic
integration with IBM WebSphere MQ messaging products, a business
integration product series. The newly implemented NYBOT SOA system aims to provide
reduced risk, cost and complexity, and ultimately to help change the IT
economics of the exchange.
- ACHIEVE HEALTHCARE SELECTS INTACCT/IBM ERP ON DEMAND SOLUTION
- Intacct ERP On Demand adds accounts payable, general ledger, payroll and
order entry to the Achieve Matrix system, which includes robust clinical
and business management functionalities, giving long-term care organizations a
complete system for all clinical, financial and human resources needs.
- CAPE CLEAR ANNOUNCES TELECOMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRY SOLUTION
- This industry solution is in response to the rapid adoption of Web
services, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), and the Enterprise Service
Bus (ESB) integration platform throughout the telecommunications industry.
- UXComm ANNOUNCES AutonomIQ FOR DYNAMIC SERVER PROVISIONING
- AutonomIQ for DSP applies advanced technology and broad support for open
standards to deliver a powerful autonomic server management solution
designed to provide businesses with a logical, sequential path from
today's manual, people-intensive systems management tools and processes to true
automated utility management for modular computing environments.
Applications
- AGILE EXPANDS AGILE 9 ENTERPRISE PLM OFFERINGS
- This suite includes Agile Product Governance and Compliance, a solution
for managing product and program compliance to standards and regulatory
requirements, offering assurance of effective compliance throughout the
product lifecycle.
- SAP REPORTS STRONG SAP xApps ADOPTION
- SAP xApps leverage the SAP NetWeaver technology platform and Web services
to deliver next-generation services-oriented business applications.
- WCC SERVICES UTILIZES GRID IN ELISE 5.1 MATCHING TECHNOLOGY
- ELISE uses Grid techniques that make optimal use of industry-standard
hardware. These Grid techniques also enhance ELISE's impressive
scalability, and facilitate high-availability of the product by distributing software
components redundantly over multiple servers or even across data centers.
Breaking News
"Obviously, I'm a big Grid fan, but even the naysayers of
yesterday are starting to believe that Grid computing has
massive potential. Just how big it will become, and what type
of applications will be affected, remains to be seen." -- Bjorn Andersson, Mktg Mgr for Grid, Sun Microsystems
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