As Grid-related technologies are gaining popularity outside the traditional domain of e-Science and the Academia, a number of high profile enterprises make the decisive move for their own benefit.
In order to provide relevant specifications and recommendations, the -former- Enterprise Grid Alliance (now Open Grid Forum) has been created that consists of a number of high profile industry representatives, academic institutes and relevant organizations. The EGA Reference Model is the fruit of this alliance and has been proved quite influential in the design and deployment of enterprise Grid infrastructures (See in the Related Links Sections).
[Of course Grid is not the panacea but depending on the application domain it can greatly enhance performance, automation, utilization and -occasionally, troubles!]
EBay, being such an enormous enterprise with over 200 million registered users (a quarter of them possibly scammers :smile:), has made the move to Grid computing in order to support the hordes of electronic auctioneers, buying completely useless stuff just because they were a “bargain”…
EBay has moved from “a traditional multi-tiered architecture to a massively distributed architecture/infrastructure everywhere, including everything from development and test environments to production databases (scaling through disaggregation/partitioning) and Web servers (scaling through replication)…”. These were the words of Paul Strong, research scientist at the eBay Research Labs, as published in an interview a few days ago in GRIDToday.
What remains to see in the future, is how solid and secure these massive enterprise Grid infrastructures are, while Grid technologies have only recently “matured” out of the infancy level…
In order to provide relevant specifications and recommendations, the -former- Enterprise Grid Alliance (now Open Grid Forum) has been created that consists of a number of high profile industry representatives, academic institutes and relevant organizations. The EGA Reference Model is the fruit of this alliance and has been proved quite influential in the design and deployment of enterprise Grid infrastructures (See in the Related Links Sections).
[Of course Grid is not the panacea but depending on the application domain it can greatly enhance performance, automation, utilization and -occasionally, troubles!]
EBay, being such an enormous enterprise with over 200 million registered users (a quarter of them possibly scammers :smile:), has made the move to Grid computing in order to support the hordes of electronic auctioneers, buying completely useless stuff just because they were a “bargain”…
EBay has moved from “a traditional multi-tiered architecture to a massively distributed architecture/infrastructure everywhere, including everything from development and test environments to production databases (scaling through disaggregation/partitioning) and Web servers (scaling through replication)…”. These were the words of Paul Strong, research scientist at the eBay Research Labs, as published in an interview a few days ago in GRIDToday.
What remains to see in the future, is how solid and secure these massive enterprise Grid infrastructures are, while Grid technologies have only recently “matured” out of the infancy level…
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