Utility Computing's Branding Problem
from the what's-that-now? dept
For all the hype coming out of IBM, HP and Sun around "utility" or "grid" computing - when asked, most companies had no idea what was meant by those phrases. However, when the concept was explained, they understood what it was, and how it could be useful. Clearly, there's a bit of a marketing problem at this point. However, it's still early in the push for such services and the confusion should diminish over time. The more important question is whether or not companies will actually find utility computing useful and cost-effective.
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Grid computing
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funny you should mention this...
Unless your organization has large compuationaly distributable problems it needs to solve on a daily basis, then the resource of thousands of idle desktops should probably be reanme p2p computing.
Things like this:
http://www.hivecache.com/
could be extremely useful to your organization.
I've distributed desktop IDS systems have caught my eye in the past.
If you're not using grid computing to solve daily IT problems or you don't have a huge number crunching mainframe you're trying to get rid of, it's a huge waste of time and effort.
I really wonder just how upper managment get sold on this BS.
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