Paul Shread

Gateway has signed on the American Diabetes Association as the first customer for its Grid computing service. The ADA will use Gateway’s Processing On Demand solution, backed by United Device’s Grid MP Alliance platform, to accelerate diabetes research. The platform will run software to help the ADA analyze clinical programs and treatments, develop clinical practice […]

Quantum is expanding its disk-based backup offerings to include a compression technology that can double storage capacity and increase performance. The DX30 and the new enterprise-class DX100 offer greater functionality and scalability, and also include a unique embedded OS that emulates a tape library. “We have designed the embedded OS in our DX products to […]

Lower-end SANs and storage management software appear to be the biggest spending priorities for storage professionals, according to TheInfoPro’s latest storage study. TIP’s study, based on 192 in-depth interviews with Global 2000 storage decision makers and 42 institutional investors, found that storage professionals are planning to spend less on Storage Area Networks (SANs) this year […]

IBM will be announcing major upgrades to its Tivoli storage management suite at next week’s developerWorks conference in New Orleans. The additional autonomic, self-managing functionality will reduce maintenance and training costs and will allow customers to manage 10 times the amount of storage with just one storage administrator, claims Paul Ellis of the Tivoli Storage […]

IBM is joining the CERN openlab for DataGrid applications to help create a massive data-management system built on Grid computing. IBM’s storage virtualization and file management technology will play a key role in the collaboration, which aims to create a data file system “far larger than exists today” to help scientists at the renowned particle […]

The world’s first wireless Internet Protocol (IP) Storage Area Network was born of an enduring necessity: the need to save money. “Acquiring IP services to our local sites would have cost us $50,000 to $70,000 per month,” said Denis Van Dale, network administrator for Steinbach Credit Union. “It was much more economical to build our […]

IBM launched a broad push into commercial Grid computing Monday with 10 initiatives targeting aerospace, automotive, financial markets, government and life sciences. Big Blue, which gave Grid computing a big boost with its entry into the space in August 2001, said it hopes its latest initiative will “drive the benefits of Grid computing beyond its […]

Grid computing technology may soon be used to preserve such priceless artifacts of American history as films of the Spanish-American War and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, the photographs of Matthew Brady and Ansel Adams, and Walt Whitman’s notebooks. The Library of Congress is evaluating Grid technology developed at the San Diego Supercomputer Center to […]

Taken to its logical extreme, IBM’s view of the future of enterprise computing could mean a world where corporations no longer have IT departments. IBM Grid Computing General Manager Tom Hawk doesn’t necessarily think it will get to that point – some companies may always prefer having in-house expertise – but IBM is moving in […]

Sun Microsystems unveiled the latest version of its Grid computing software on Thursday, including a new policy management tool that Sun says gives enterprises unprecedented ability to allocate computing resources. Sun Grid Engine Enterprise Edition 5.3 is the commercial version of the free Sun Grid Engine software that has been available since September 2000. The […]