Articles Related to grids

Microsoft Corp.

Microsoft is developing a security language for grids, designed to deal with some of the security issues raised by grids' decentralized nature.

In an analysis of the Canadian IT market for its U.S. and international clients, Forrester Research is projecting a moderate increase in Canadian IT spending of four per cent in 2006, continuing two years of slow growth.

A new report by The 451 Group suggests that the traditional per-CPU software licensing model is throwing a wrench in widespread adoption of grid computing.

IBM Corp. on Monday unwrapped new software that allows corporate users to carry out both cross-platform and cross-domain scheduling by integrating enterprise-class applications across both grids and other distributed environments.

With over 600 new features including the ability to integrate business applications, manage business processes and a Web Services infrastructure, Oracle Corp. announced on Wednesday the availability of its Application Server 10g.

Kicking off the InfoWorld CTO Forum last month in Boston, Ian Foster told corporate technology leaders that the time is nigh to start using grid technologies.

The Global Grid Forum last month accepted into its contingency a working group that is charged with developing a specification to enable applications to connect to and communicate with grid computing environments.