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Sun links up with the Grid
Sun Microsystems has joined industry leaders as one of founding members of
the Enterprise Grid Alliance (EGA), a consortium created to develop enterprise
grid solutions and accelerate the deployment of grid computing.
Grid computing evangelists say it can lower the total cost of ownership by reducing
the complexity of managing resources, and offers faster business service deployment
with lower risk of errors, and higher return on assets through improved availability,
uptime and throughput.
Sun is taking grid computing forward by converging its data center experience
with a new vision of grid-enabled commercial enterprise services and capabilities.
The next step after gird computing for commercial adoption is to better leverage
and integrate with enterprise data center management systems,” says Shahin
Khan, Sun's vice president of High Performance and Technical Computing.
David Nelson-Gal, Sun's vice president of N1 Grid systems, adds, “We see
a strong emergence of grid technology into the broader domain of enterprise
computing which is why grid is a key element in Sun's systems-based strategy.”
The EGA is an open, independent and vendor-neutral community addressing the
near-term requirements for deploying commercial applications in a grid environment.
Initial focus areas include reference models, provisioning, security and accounting.
It will address obstacles that organizations face using enterprise grids.
“Grid computing although well-established in the academic sector, has yet
to gain significant traction throughout the enterprise,” says Donald Deutsch,
EGA's president and Oracle's vice president for standards strategy and architecture.
“The EGA will create open, interoperable enterprise grid computing solutions.”
The EGA's founding members include Sun, EMC, Fujitsu Siemens Computers, HP,
NEC, Network Appliance, and Oracle, and will drive the adoption of grid computing.
The board of directors will participate in and chair committees and vote to
approve the consortium's output and core capabilities.
Membership to the EGA is open to all organizations via multiple
participation tiers. Further information on the EGA can be found at www.gridalliance.org
Courtesy CMP Business Media
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'Telecom reforms bring newer challenges'
 Kulvinder
(Kelly) Ahuja, VP Marketing, Cisco Systems discusses the latest trends
on the service provider arena.
How are telecom reforms changing the services offered
by service providers?
The telecom reforms going on all over the world have triggered a lot of
discussion over convergence. Newer challenges arise with newer services
offered by incoming players. Their network maintenance costs aren't coming
down, but increasing competition decreases revenues. Hence, incumbent
service providers have to offer existing services at lower costs, and
add new services to increase revenues. Therefore, the convergence concept
emerges.
Convergence allows operators to have multiple services over a single convergent
infrastructure. It also brings services like VoIP and video on demand
to users at lower costs.
Given the bottlenecks in access infrastructure how
effective are these services?
Infrastructure at the access level has been a weak point. Not only in
India, but all over the world.
In different parts of the world, you find different access infrastructure.
For example, DSL and cable growth for Internet is not really that popular
in India due to lack of required infrastructure. Wireless access using
mobile phones is growing rapidly. On the other hand, countries like Japan
and Europe with stable high-speed infrastructure have fast roll outs and
adoption of DSL services.
What might happen in India on the access front is still to be seen. Wireless
has high potential in hotspots and metro Ethernet, because it requires
less infrastructure.
— Anil Patrick R.
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