In January 2007 The 451 Group released new report providing a 'state of the market', a look at enterprise grid computing, and the evolution of grid computing and deployment dynamics across different vertical industries, including financial services, telecom, pharmaceutical, digital media and manufacturing.
According to the report: "Over the course of 2006, there was an exodus from the term 'grid' among the IT vendor and investor communities compared with the previous four years of accelerated use. Vendors and investors seek other names for their company and products, while enterprise IT early-adopters continue to create grid computing-related job titles and responsibilities," "Grid is a means to an end. As virtualization and other techniques enable grid computing to become absorbed into the fabric of next generation distributed computing, vendors are seeking out its next point of touchdown while users are baking it into their enterprise computing strategies."
451 analysts found that investment banks see the compute grid issues as largely 'solved' and the challenge as moving beyond this. By contrast, the pharmaceutical industry considers many of the challenges of compute grids to be as intractable as ever, particularly software licensing. A very different view comes from the oil and gas industry, where, although grids have been around for a long time, there is a growing interest in using them to solve more than just seismic processing and reservoir modelling challenges.
"What is common across all vertical industries is that, if 'grid' is not the right term for their distributed computing initiatives, there is no consensus for a more appropriate term. This report examines the different issues and deployment stages of the various vertical markets,"
This report, 'Grid Computing -- the state of the market,' is the fourteenth report in the 451 Grid Adoption Research Service (GARS) -- an investigation into user experiences and vendor strategies. www.gridtoday.com/grid/1236610.html
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