Grid business

Grid business


Now more than ever, grids mean good business. For the companies below, grids and business go hand-in-hand.

ActiveEon
AIMES
Avaki
Axceleon
Data Synapse
Decker Consulting GmbH
EmergenceTech
GoGrid

GridSystems
GridXpert
GridwiseTech
HP
IBM
Parabon
Platform Computing
Univa UD



 

PROJECT DETAILS ActiveEon  
SYNOPSIS ActiveEon co-develops with INRIA an Open Source Java solution for Grids and Clouds: ProActive Parallel Suite®. ProActive provides a powerful framework to accelerate time-critical applications and increase the available computing power without investing in new hardware. ProActive is a highly portable solution that finally puts parallel programming and job scheduling within everyone’s reach. ActiveEon also offers training, support, consulting, and integration and development services.

PROJECT DETAILS AIMES  
SYNOPSIS The AIMES Centre (Advanced Internet Methods and Emergent Systems), part of the University of Liverpool, is a pioneer in the transfer of e-science to e-business.The centre focuses on the application of ‘grid technology’ to real business needs and in the ability to create new business ventures capable of delivering those business solutions. AIMES works with the local SME community and other key sectors of business with the ambition of seeding a new niche ICT ‘business grid’ cluster in the Liverpool City Region.

COMPANY Avaki  
SYNOPSIS Avaki has recently released Avaki Data Grid 4.0, which the company says "helps provision operational data to business intelligence applications and analysts in near real time for better decision-making. It makes data available across departments, locations, and even companies in a secure, streamlined, and cost-effective way."

COMPANY Axceleon  
SYNOPSIS Axceleon's product, EnFuzion 7.2 is a distributed resource manager that requires no special software (such as Java) or hardware to run. It uses parametric processing to split jobs into discrete components for parallel execution; the same application is executed several times with multiple sets of input parameters.

COMPANY Data Synapse  
SYNOPSIS DataSynapse's GridServer software creates a self-managed grid-computing infrastructure, generating unparalleled levels of application scalability, performance and reliability, while optimizing computing resources and measurably increasing revenues.

COMPANY Decker Consulting GmbH  
SYNOPSIS Decker Consulting GmbH assists on the management level to help enterprises understand and exploit the potential of grid computing for their businesses. They offer help with training, consulting and managing the implementation project, with particular attention to information security and IT service management.

COMPANY Emergence Tech  
SYNOPSIS Emergence Tech is a strategic consulting company specialising in helping clients to better understand the impact of emerging technologies. They facilitate the creation of organisational strategies and roadmaps for maximising the benefits—and minimising the risks—of working in a changing technology landscape. Emergence Tech are a vendor-independent consulting company.

COMPANY GoGrid  
SYNOPSIS GridFrastructure focuses on the needs of business users and production data processing shops. It offers a suite of software products called GF-Grid that augment the wide range of existing middleware with industrial strength management tools. The company provides advisory and operational services to organizations in areas including health science, physical science, engineering and finance.

COMPANY GridSystems  
SYNOPSIS GridSystems was founded in 2000; its latest middleware, called Fura, allows the grid-enablement and distribution of applications on heterogeneous computational resources. With Fura, GridSystems adopted an open-source business model to ease the adoption of grid technology, including a dual licensing model enables third party proprietary licensing and other commercial models.

COMPANY GridwiseTech  
SYNOPSIS GridwiseTech is a vendor-independent expert on scalable grid computing solutions. They help customers to speed their data processing, remove application bottlenecks and build complete scalable systems, using grids, virtualization and service-oriented architecture (SOA) where appropriate. They helped put together the Virolab project.

COMPANY HP  
SYNOPSIS HP is working with the technologies, standards and solutions that make grid computing a powerful strategy for enterprise today.

COMPANY GridXpert  
SYNOPSIS GridXpert's product Synergy "enables organisations to model, optimise and analyse the use of multiple software and hardware resources at multiple locations across the world, within or across enterprise boundaries, and therefore to improve their productivity while maximizing their return on infrastructure investments."

COMPANY IBM  
SYNOPSIS IBM has a long and thorough involvement with both the technology and the business issues that have led to the grid computing evolution.

COMPANY Parabon  
SYNOPSIS Parabon's primary focus is enterprise Grid computing, but the company is also one of the few grid companies offering an Internet solution based on its Frontier platform.

COMPANY Platform Computing  
SYNOPSIS Platform Computing makes software that " enables you to dynamically share resources through self-management, guaranteed service, resource provisioning and workload management across a grid. With Platform LSF, Platform Symphony and Platform JobScheduler, we accelerate compute- and data-intensive applications, and automate processes based on business objectives and intelligent policies and scheduling."

COMPANY Univa UD  
SYNOPSIS United Devices' "flagship platform, Grid MP™, enables any organization to coordinate and share existing computing, application, data, storage, and network resources across departmental and geographically dispersed organizations -- or to outsource processing needs to a secure private grid. The end result is a virtual supercomputer that increases in power over time and never depreciates in value."

COMPANY Digipede Technologies  
SYNOPSIS Digipede Technologies provides distributed computing solutions for the Microsoft Windows platform, aiming to bring the benefits of grid computing to the mainstream market. Digipede provide solutions for small to medium-sized companies as well as large departments and organizations, allowing software developers to grid-enable their applications so scientists, analysts, engineers, project managers and others with compute-intensive needs can benefit from the improved performance of a distributed application.

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