With Grid only just entering the Enterprise space and still plenty of developments required including for industry standards, the forward-looking experts of the IT industry are attempting to define the logical next step beyond Grid and use models such as Utility Computing. With the holidays’ period approaching, I could not […]

The month of October has had a weird recurring pattern of events at least in the last few years. It usually starts relatively slowly; well for sure it’s slower than the mad September month full of interesting but schedule intensive conferences and business meetings. Then, towards the middle of the month […]

I could not resist attending the GridWorld event in Washington earlier this month. Not only this was an opportunity to meet with the passionate members of the Open Grid Forum (OGF was formed after the merger of the Global Grid Forum and the Enterprise Grid Alliance) but GridWorld was also a venue to meet with […]

Here is a set of buzz-words and acronym that have been over-hyped and often used out-of-context by IT industry “wonderfullists”. So using them together may look like an odd move. However, there seem to be some emerging and interesting convergence points (say synergy if you want) between these domains or at least some complementariness. Here’s […]

I have just had another great week in Tokyo last week with the Global Grid Forum 17th Symposium combined with the GridWorld Japan event. Whilst the conference & expo clearly demonstrated the interest of the Japanese audience in Grid-related technologies and solutions, Grid experts from academia & private R&D labs around the world continued debating […]

Interesting week in Athens (Greece) this week! Inspired by the temples of ancient gods & goddesses in the Greek capital, the Grid gurus reviewed and measured their progress for a pervasive adoption of Grid solutions at the 16th Global Grid Forum Symposium.
One major confirmation this week that came up at GGF16 is the joint announcement […]