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irving wladawsky-berger
General Manager
e-business On Demand
daniel sabbah
Vice President
WebSphere Platform Development
The Grid Gets Down to Business
In simplest terms, “grids” are systems that get
connected
—
across one room, or across the world
—
creating one big virtual computer that shares processing,
storage and other operations. Most of the early work
has been in the far-flung supercomputing networks of
places like Oxford University, the University of
Pennsylvania and the National Science Foundation in
the United States. Corporations like Charles Schwab
have a different take. They’re looking inside
—
using
grids to boost the utilization of their complex
infrastructures, in order to lower their costs and to bring
the management and security of traditional mainframes
to masses of distributed UNIX and Intel-based systems.
IBM is working with The Globus Project and
the rest of the open grid community to deliver
an open architecture that aligns
the emerging grid standards with
established standards for Web services
Middleware Is the Integrating Platform
If the world of on demand business is premised on
open communications, it’s fueled by open software.
Applications that were written for standalone hardware
products and a particular computer operating system
now will be written for middleware
—
products such as
Web application server software, databases and software
for collaboration, content and systems management
—
that transcends the limitations of proprietary systems
and organizational constructs.
db2 grew faster than the industry and
faster than its nearest competitor in 2002
The WebSphere family of products
grew more than 20%
Content management software revenue
increased 26%