Windows/Intel and Linux/Intel deployments don't offer this advantage. Sun has revamped its licensing strategy to address IS organisations' need for ease and speed of installation, provisioning and online maintenance.
Indeed it is worthwhile noting that while technical deployments of this technology usually grab the headlines, the commercial use of Itanium is growing steadily. This processor is targeting high density (blade and rack) deployments, perhaps looking...
But as resources get more formally attached to the pool, the technology takes on labels such as grid computing and utility computing. Distributed and grid computing have been of interest chiefly to the academic community, but it's becoming...
Third parties will also be able to write add-on applications that make use of the virtualisation and provisioning tools in N1. As part of its Adaptive Enterprise initiative, Hewlett-Packard has built ties between its OpenView systems management...
Also coming is the Sun N1 Service Provisioning System, which is used to install software across groups of different types of servers - Web servers, application servers and database servers. At that event, the company discussed its Sun Grid, a...
Scientists in the UK and Asia have deployed a computing grid to find a potential cure for Avian flu. The Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (Pparc) said on Thursday that it put up a grid computing project, which was originally designed...