Another academic, Lynda Gratton at London Business School, argues that "in this decade it is only people who can sustain the competitive advantage of a company [through] the ability to create rarity, value and inimitability".
IBM, one of the loudest advocates of pooling computing resources with grid technology, has secured half a dozen new customers. Big Blue announced on Wednesday that the new customers will join IBM's stable of about 100 companies that have bought...
The fundamental grid protocols, standards and reference implementations are already evolving nicely under the aegis of the Global Grid Forum and the Globus Alliance," he said. A number of computer industry heavyweights joined forces on Tuesday to...
Financial services companies, along with telecommunications corporations, are Sun's core customers; Sun rose with their lavish spending in the late 1990s and fell with their troubles this decade. The program, called the Secure N1 Grid, will cost $1...
Grid computing is much more widespread in businesses than first thought, new research has found, but arguments over who should pay for it could well be stymieing growth in adoption. Analyst house Quocirca's latest Insight report into grid computing...
Fewer than one in 10 businesses is planning to adopt grid computing because of concerns about cost, complexity and security, according to a survey of IT managers. Out of the 100 IT managers quizzed, 88 per cent said their board of directors don't...