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May 22, 2013

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ALSO CALLED: Computational Grids, Cluster Computing, Grid Control DEFINITION: Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA) is a set of standards defining the way in which information is shared among diverse components of large, heterogeneous grid systems. In this context, a grid system is a scalable wide area network (WAN) that supports resource sharing and distribution. OGSA is a trademark of the Open Grid Forum.OGSA definitions and criteria apply to hardware, platforms and software … Definition continues below.
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Unleashing the Power of Big Data in the Utilities Industry sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company WHITE PAPER: The proliferation of smart meters and sensors, along with new channels for customer interaction have provided North American utilities with unprecedented access to data from the grid and from their customers. The challenge now is to take full advantage of all that data. Read on to find out how you can get started on your big data strategy. Posted: 10 Apr 2013 \| Published: 10 Apr 2013 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Customer Data Integration \| Customer Data Management \| Customer Interaction Services \| Data Analytics \| Data Management \| Data Mining \| Grid Computing \| Unstructured Data \| Utilities Industry

HPC maturity benchmark 2012 sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: Grid technology is maturing, yet the pressure to increase computing capabilities has never been higher. This resource details the results of a recent high performance computing survey, providing a grid maturity benchmark that will help you plan a more intelligent grid strategy. Posted: 28 Mar 2013 \| Published: 28 Mar 2013 TOPICS: Benchmark Testing \| Business Intelligence \| Business Management \| Business Performance Management \| Grid Computing \| High Performance Computing \| IT Governance \| Risk Management

Unleashing the Power of Big Data in the Utilities Industry sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Limited WHITE PAPER: The proliferation of smart meters and sensors, along with new channels for customer interaction have provided North American utilities with unprecedented access to data from the grid and from their customers. The challenge now is to take full advantage of all that data. Read on to find out how you can get started on your big data strategy. Posted: 28 Jan 2013 \| Published: 30 Sep 2012 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Customer Interaction Services \| Data Analytics \| Data Mining \| Grid Computing \| Unstructured Data \| Utilities Industry

Algorithmics and IBM Platform Computing Solution for Financial Markets sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to learn how spreading the computational demands of advanced risk analytics across a grid computing environment enables today's banks to cost-effectively perform risk simulations for their largest trading counterparties in a few minutes, comply with post-crisis regulations such as Basel III, and much more. Posted: 03 Dec 2012 \| Published: 31 May 2012 TOPICS: Basel II \| Financial Industry Organizations \| Grid Computing \| Parallel Processing \| Real-time Analytics \| Regulatory Compliance \| Risk Assessment \| Risk Management

Lower IT Costs with Oracle Database 11g Release 2 sponsored by ORACLE APAC WHITE PAPER: Download this paper to discover how Oracle Database 11g Release 2's new options and features can help you reduce server and storage costs, improve query performance, and ensure availability during database application upgrades. Read on to discover how you can transform your business, budgets, and service levels with this database platform. Posted: 02 Nov 2012 \| Published: 30 Oct 2012 TOPICS: Database Administration \| Database Administrators \| Database Architectures \| Database Design \| Database Management \| Database Performance Management \| Database Server Software \| Databases \| Grid Computing \| Oracle (Product)

A Technical Overview of the Oracle Exadata Database Machine and Exadata Storage Server sponsored by ORACLE APAC WHITE PAPER: Businesses today increasingly need to leverage a unified database platform to enable the deployment and consolidation of all applications onto one common infrastructure. Read on to learn the benefits of incorporating Oracle's Exadata based Database Machine into the IT infrastructure. Posted: 18 Oct 2012 \| Published: 18 Oct 2012 TOPICS: Data Center Design \| Database Administration \| Database Design \| Database Management \| Database Performance Management \| Grid Computing \| IT Infrastructure

A Technical Overview of the Oracle Exadata Database Machine and Exadata Storage Server sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: Businesses today increasingly need to leverage a unified database platform to enable the deployment and consolidation of all applications onto one common infrastructure. Read on to learn the benefits of incorporating Oracle's Exadata based Database Machine into the IT infrastructure. Posted: 12 Mar 2012 \| Published: 20 Jan 2011 TOPICS: Applications Management \| Data Center Design \| Database Administration \| Database Design \| Database Management \| Grid Computing \| IT Infrastructure

Magic Quadrant for Data Center Outsourcing and Infrastructure Utility Services, North America sponsored by Dell, Inc. and Intel® WHITE PAPER: More and more companies are showing interest in data center outsourcing, but there are a variety of providers to choose from. This white paper compares the outsourcing capabilities and infrastructure utility services of 17 vendors. Find out which providers were considered the challengers, leaders, niche players, and visionaries. Posted: 02 Sep 2011 \| Published: 01 Jul 2011 TOPICS: Business Process Automation \| Data Center Design \| Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Green Data Center \| Grid Computing \| Outsourcing

The seven essential elements to achieve highest performance & scalability in information integration sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: In this paper, you're introduced to seven elements that are critical to ensure the highest degree of performance and scalability of your information integration deployment. Posted: 26 Jul 2011 \| Published: 26 Jul 2011 TOPICS: Application Integration \| Business Intelligence \| Business Process Management \| Data Integration \| Data Warehouses \| Grid Computing \| Information Management

Oracle Database - The best choice for Siebel Applications sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: This white paper covers the business and technology reasons behind customers' continued choice of Oracle Database for their Siebel Applications deployments. Posted: 08 Jun 2011 \| Published: 30 Apr 2010 TOPICS: Application Integration \| Business Process Automation \| CRM \| Data Encryption \| Data Integration \| Database Management \| Grid Computing \| Oracle (Product)

Oracle Database - The best choice for PeopleSoft Applications sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses the business and technology reasons behind customers' continued choice of Oracle Database for their PeopleSoft application deployments. Posted: 08 Jun 2011 \| Published: 30 Apr 2010 TOPICS: Application Integration \| Data Encryption \| Data Integration \| Data Management \| Data Warehouses \| Database Management \| Grid Computing \| Oracle (Product)

Discovering hidden costs in your data centre – a CFO perspective sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: This paper describes how CFOs can help ensure a healthier bottom line by taking proactive steps today. Posted: 19 May 2011 \| Published: 01 Sep 2010 TOPICS: Data Center Design \| Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| Data Center Management \| Energy Efficiency \| Green Data Center \| Grid Computing \| Server Virtualization \| Storage Virtualization

Enhance Data Center Utilization by 95% with Enterprise Scale Workload Management sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn how organizations primarily adopt workload management software to increase value from their data centers and ease the pain of managing a million jobs simultaneously. Posted: 13 Apr 2011 \| Published: 13 Apr 2011 TOPICS: Application Infrastructure \| Data Center Management \| Data Management \| Grid Computing \| Load Balancing \| Oracle (Product) \| Server Management \| Workload Automation

Oracle Grid Computing sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: The Oracle Grid computing architecture features many powerful techniques that improve energy efficiency and data center productivity. Continue reading to learn more. Posted: 15 Mar 2011 \| Published: 01 Jun 2009 TOPICS: Cloud Computing \| Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| Enterprise Information Management (EIM) \| Grid Computing \| Oracle (Product) \| Server Virtualization \| Systems Management \| Utility Computing

Red Hat Cloud Foundations Reference Architecture: Private IaaS Clouds sponsored by Red Hat and JBoss WHITE PAPER: Red Hat's suite of open source software provides a rich infrastructure for cloud providers to build public/private cloud offerings. This Volume 1 guide for deploying the Red Hat infrastructure for a private cloud describes the foundation for building a Red Hat Private cloud. Posted: 15 Feb 2011 \| Published: 10 Feb 2011 TOPICS: Cloud Computing \| Grid Computing \| Hybrid clouds \| Infrastructure Services \| Open Source Software \| Private cloud computing \| Public cloud computing \| Server Virtualization \| Virtual Machine

A Technical Overview of the Oracle Exadata Database Machine and Exadata Storage Server sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: Businesses today increasingly need to leverage a unified database platform to enable the deployment and consolidation of all applications onto one common infrastructure. Read on to learn the benefits of incorporating Oracle's Exadata based Database Machine into the IT infrastructure. Posted: 20 Jan 2011 \| Published: 20 Jan 2011 TOPICS: Applications Management \| Data Center Design \| Database Administration \| Database Design \| Database Management \| Grid Computing \| IT Infrastructure

Architectural Strategies for Cloud Computing sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: This paper explains how cloud computing is now also evolving in a private variant whereby enterprises set up cloud-like, centralized shared infrastructure with automated capacity adjustment that internal departmental “customers” utilize in a self-service manner. Realization of efficiency, performance, and agility benefits is reinforcing this trend. Posted: 20 Dec 2010 \| Published: 20 Dec 2010 TOPICS: Cloud Computing \| Grid Computing \| Identity Management \| Oracle (Product) \| Security \| Security Management \| Server Virtualization \| SOA \| Virtual Machine

*Intel® Cloud Builder Guide: Cloud Design and Deployment on Intel® Platforms: Red Hat Cloud Foundations sponsored by Intel WHITE PAPER: This paper is for cloud service providers, hosts, and enterprise IT organizations who are looking to build their own cloud infrastructure, the decision to use a cloud for the delivery of IT services is best done by starting with the knowledge and experience gained from previous work. Read on to learn more about cloud design and deployment. Posted: 19 Nov 2010 \| Published: 19 Nov 2010 TOPICS:** Cloud Computing \| Grid Computing \| Infrastructure Management \| IT Best Practices \| IT Departments \| IT Management \| Private cloud computing \| Public cloud computing

RightScale Grid: Grid Computing Applications in the Cloud sponsored by RightScale WHITE PAPER: Learn about the technologies, workflow and systems architecture of a cloud-based grid computing solution. Posted: 10 Aug 2010 \| Published: 10 Aug 2010 TOPICS: Applications Management \| Cloud Computing \| Grid Computing \| Job Control Language \| Job Scheduling Software \| Systems Management Software \| Workflow Software

Grid Computing in the Cloud: A Business Case sponsored by RightScale WHITE PAPER: Learn about the unique advantages and economics of using cloud computing for grid processing. Posted: 10 Aug 2010 \| Published: 10 Aug 2010 TOPICS: Cloud Computing \| Grid Computing \| IT Management \| Server Provisioning \| Systems Management

Performance in the Cloud sponsored by Compuware Corporation WHITE PAPER: Companies are eager to take advantage of the benefits of cloud computing but are often weary of the potential business risks that the technology exposes. This paper provides an innovative approach to the application performance and availability challenges inherent in cloud computing. Continue reading to learn more about performance in the cloud. Posted: 06 Aug 2010 \| Published: 06 Aug 2010 TOPICS: Application Infrastructure \| Application Life-Cycle Management \| Application Monitoring \| Application Performance Management \| Applications Management \| Cloud Computing \| Dashboards \| Grid Computing \| Private cloud computing

Cloud-based Integration and SOA Architecture: The Benefits of a Peer-to-Peer Approach sponsored by Fiorano Software, Inc. WHITE PAPER: The move toward cloud computing affects all software application deployment in the future. This paper addresses the software infrastructure requirements for SOA-enabled systems to leverage Cloud Computing for the deployment of the next generation of business applications. Posted: 21 Jul 2010 \| Published: 20 Jul 2010 TOPICS: Business Process Management \| Business Process Management Software \| Business Process Outsourcing \| Cloud Computing \| ESB \| Grid Computing \| Platform as a service \| SOA \| Software as a Service

Toad for Oracle 10.5 sponsored by Quest Software, now a part of Dell WHITE PAPER: Toad for Oracle v10.5 adds new features and enhances many existing ones. These changes are designed to save you time, increase accuracy and give you better visibility of your work environment - whether you’re a developer working in an unfamiliar database or maintaining legacy code, or a DBA trying to manage multiple databases. Posted: 20 Jul 2010 \| Published: 20 Jul 2010 TOPICS: Code Management \| Database Administration \| Database Administrators \| Database Management \| Grid Computing \| Oracle (Product) \| Software Development Tools

The Building Blocks for Private Cloud: Automation, Virtualization, and Cloud Service Management sponsored by newScale, Inc. WHITE PAPER: This paper presents the building blocks for private cloud, which include virtualization, automation and cloud service management. Read on to learn more about each building block and how they can be used to create a successful private cloud. Posted: 03 May 2010 \| Published: 03 May 2010 TOPICS: Autonomic Computing \| Cloud Computing \| Collaboration \| Grid Computing \| IT Service Management \| Private cloud computing \| Self-Service Applications Software \| Utility Computing \| Virtual Machine

Evaluating and Contracting for Cloud Financials Best Practice Considerations sponsored by Intacct Corporation WHITE PAPER: Choosing a cloud computing solution can seem like a daunting task. Where do you start? What questions do you ask? What do you specifically need to look out for? This paper answers these questions and more. Continue reading to learn the best practices for choosing a cloud computing solution. Posted: 17 Mar 2010 \| Published: 17 Mar 2010 TOPICS: Accounting Software \| Application Hosting \| Cloud Computing \| Financial Management \| Financial Services \| Financial Systems \| Grid Computing \| ROI \| Software as a Service \| Vendor Selection

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GRID COMPUTING DEFINITION (continued): … in standards-based grid computing. The OGSA is, in effect, an extension and refinement of the service-oriented architecture (SOA). The OGSA addresses ongoing issues and challenges such as authentication, authorization, policy negotiation and enforcement, administration of service-level agreements, management of virtual organizations and customer data integration. For a Web service to be considered a grid service, it must allow clients to easily discover, update, modify and delete information about the service's state, define how the service evolves and ensure ongoing compatibility with other services. …
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