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August 21, 2006
UD CTO: Grid Plays Key Role in Virtualizing Business Apps
Venkat explains that enterprise software applications like SAP, Siebel and others that traditionally run on a fixed, static infrastructure are implicitly constrained -- adjustments must be made manually and can take months to complete, thus limiting the ability of IT organizations to react to changing business needs. Clearly, management of such environments is very expensive and a significant contributor to application total cost of ownership.
By contrast, said Venkat, "Modern grid-managed infrastructures are flexible, dynamic and extremely cost-effective. IT managers thus have an unprecedented ability to make rapid infrastructure adjustments in response to application demand fluctuations and to optimize loads on their existing multi-vendor IT assets.
"High-Performance Computing (HPC) grid providers like United Devices are uniquely positioned to solve the infrastructure issues associated with virtualizing enterprise software applications," said Venkat. "Our solutions are proven at scale in HPC environments, and customers now want to leverage these capabilities to drive significant costs out of data center operation."
Venkat's presentation will detail how IT executives are applying Grid capabilities to mainstream computing operations. The presentation will include examples of how United Devices customers are using grid management solutions to automate server virtualization and speed consolidation, in order to streamline operations and reduce TCO for data center owners.
Venkat's talk will be open to conference attendees at 4 p.m. on Sept. 12.
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