An executive with the database software maker says the company is building a consortium of industry players to help create standards for commercial use of grid computing.
Four Australian universities have teamed up to create and test a "data grid", designed to allow global access to the terabytes of data generated by modern large-scale scientific research.
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IBM is moving to take the wraps off grid additions to its WebSphere server software that the company says will save customers money on underutilised hardware
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Models of utility computing promoted by Sun, IBM and Hewlett-Packard need a "reality check", said a senior Dell executive.
Although HP's version currently is limited to its SuperDome servers, the company sees a time when all computer resources are connected to a grid, with customers billed on a usage basis.
IBM plans to take a distributed computing concept from the theoretical realm and make it a corporate reality.
For those of you who missed the big proclamation, IBM is betting US$10 billion that customers will turn to Big Blue to deliver computing resources the way a power utility doles out electricity.
Hewlett-Packard researchers will unveil a major breakthrough in the field of nanotechnology, a milestone in the company's goal to build chips based on "molecular grids".
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison on Wednesday unveiled its first ever hardware product a storage server with embedded software designed to work with the company's databases and be used in a grid. The Exadata programmable storage server aims to put database intelligence next to each drive.
Storage technology maker Network Appliance announced Tuesday that it has agreed to buy rival server and software manufacturer Spinnaker Networks in a US$300 million stock deal.
IBM has announced a major launch of new storage products and technology to help customers deal with the huge amounts of data they hold.
IBM researchers gave ZDNet.com.au's sister site CNET News.com an insight its latest "racetrack" memory, which IBM promises will bring a 100 fold increase in density by storing data in long magnetised nanowires rather than disks.
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