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September 29, 2006 | Comments: (0)

All Ready for Grid 2.0?

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We are a society that is seemingly obsessed with putting labels or signs on everything from car bumpers to blimps to items that exist only as ones and zeros in the ether. Case in point, an interesting piece by William Fellows of The 451 Group on Grid 2.0.

William defines the Grid versions as follows: Grid 1.0 is principally concerned with the virtualization, aggregation and sharing of compute resources, Grid 2.0 is focused on the virtualization, aggregation and sharing of all compute, storage, network and data resources. It is both service-oriented -- uses Web services and provides access to IT as a service -- and automated.

Okay. I get it and I buy it. Grid 2.0, even though it is really just a marketing term today adds storage network and data resources management to the services provided in Grid 1.0. Fine.

From the report "When asked, 70 percent of early adopters who responded to a survey said there is a better term than 'Grid' to describe their distributed computing architectures: 23 percent said virtualization, 23 percent said HPC, 19 percent said utility computing, 19 percent said clustering, and 15 percent said SOA."

So, if 70 percent of people surveyed by one of the leading analyst firms in the space do not believe that the term 'Grid' suffices - are we really ready for Grid 2.0?

Posted by Greg Nawrocki on September 29, 2006 06:50 AM

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