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 IDG is proud to announce the first-ever LinuxWorld Enterprise Grid Solution Showcase (booth # 824), brought to you by Grid standards organizations EGA and GGF in conjunction with Intel Corporation and other key industry leaders.
This show "hot spot" features demonstrations of real Grid and service-oriented solutions, plus an in-booth theater – managed by Tabor Communications – where you will hear directly from thought leaders, technologists and strategists who will help paint a vision for Grids in the enterprise.
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10:15 a.m.
Grid Adoption in HPC: Attempting to Size the “Grid Market”
Addison Snell
Research Director, HPC, IDC
Addison Snell, a research director from IDC’s Technical Computing Systems Group, will present an overview of IDC research into Grid computing in technical markets, including:
- Definitions of clusters and Grids; how they are the same, and how they differ
- Estimates of “active grid” using within HPC
- IDC forecasts for software and services revenue attributable to Grid computing
- Enablers and barriers for the ongoing adoption of Grid computing in HPC
- How this relates to the enterprise adoption of Grid
11:15 a.m.
Accelerating the Adoption of Grid Computing
Brajesh Goyal
Senior Manager, Application Integration Program Office, Network Appliance
Grid computing enables organizations to share computing and information resources across department and organizational boundaries in a secure, efficient manner. Standardization of such service architectures based on grid computing is being driven by the Enterprise Grid Alliance (EGA) and the Global Grid Forum (GGF) who recently announced an intent to merge and are working closely together to accelerate adoption of grid. EGA and GGF are collaborating with the industry to champion architectures, specifications and best practices that will enable the pervasive adoption of grid services for business, engineering and science worldwide. In this talk, EGA Executive Director, Paul Ritchie, will discuss the growing trend to focus horizontally within and across organizations for flexible interoperation, process and data integration, resource and information sharing, and collaborative research and design. He will describe his perspectives on grid computing and outline a path toward widespread adoption through close cooperation with industry, academia, and the landscape of standards organizations.
2:30 p.m.
A Data Strategy for Grid and Service-Oriented IT
Bharath Rangarajan
Director, Product Marketing, GemStone Systems
As organizations tread along the path of adopting distributed computing models like grids and service oriented architectures, information challenges around data volumes, latency,and virtualization loom large. This talk will focus on data architectures and strategies that IT organizations need to consider to successfully embark on these initiatives and benefit from related hardware enhancements like 64-bit computing, distributed blade form factors and multi-core processing.
3:30 p.m.
Lowering TCO with SAP NetWeaver
Amit Sinha
Director of Solutions Marketing, SAP
SAP NetWeaver lowers total cost of ownership through reuse of system and software resources. With the explosion of data and increasing demand for analytics on that data, a consolidated business process platform is required to keep costs under control. Learn how technologies such as adaptive computing helps to reduce hardware costs and improves flexibility by virtualizing applications and running them on pooled resources.
4:30 p.m.
HP & Grid
Sara Murphy
Grid Program Manager, Hewlett-Packard
This session provides an overview of HP's solutions, products, and services for grids, and discusses examples of grids that are deployed by HP customers today. HP views grid technologies as key to a new world of distributed computing, where application services execute on shared IT resources. HP is working with customers and partners around the world to implement grid solutions, and is investing heavily in research and development efforts that are advancing grid technologies.
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10:15 a.m.
Grid and the Data Center of the Future
Dr. Reza Rooholamini
Director, Enterprise Solutions Engineering, DELL
The data center of the future consists of industry standard hardware and software components. These components are dynamically configured into platforms to deliver services based on an agreed Service level Agreement. In order to achieve this level of dynamic and optimal behavior, mechanisms and technologies are needed to monitor service delivery and dynamically provision building blocks such as servers, storage, interconnect, and software. This presentation defines the data center of the future and discusses how Grid technologies and concepts play a critical role in realization of this vision.
11:15 a.m.
The Synergies Between Grid, Virtualization and SOA
Matt Haynos
Program Director, Grid Computing Strategy and Technology, IBM
There's a lot of hype and misunderstanding in the industry around exactly what constitutes Grid, Virtualization and SOA. Further, vendors of all shapes and size are claiming superiority across each of the areas and increasing the marketing buzz and messages to a near crescendo level. It's difficult enough to understand one, let alone all three together. Yet the relationship is very simple and the potential infrastructure and business value benefits to organizations can be significant. In this presentation Matt Haynos will outline IBM's view on the relationship between the three in a simple, easy to understand manner; he will articulate the benefits of each, how they are synergistic and how aligning ones view of all three can make sense of the enterprise architecture landscape.
2:30 p.m.
Through the Prism of Fractals: Why Service-Oriented IT Should Reflect the Natural Order
Meta-principles for Containing IT Complexity
Annie Shum
Vice President, SOA Strategy, BEA Systems, Inc.
Service Orientation is emerging as the fourth wave of the computing paradigm shift because it promises to enable broad-scale interoperability and unprecedented business agility in a service value-net (ecosystem). Containing IT complexity and aligning IT with business through a set of sound and robust design principles are pivotal to the transformational power of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). This talk looks for insights into containing IT complexity by studying the time-tested tenets and dynamics of complex fractal-like forms that abound in Nature.
3:30 p.m.
SAS Grid Computing
Mark Welsh
Grid Computing Product Marketing Manager, SAS
SAS Grid Computing allows organizations to cost efficiently expand the scope and scale of intelligence applications. Enterprises can now run data management, business intelligence & analytical applications on Grid computing systems significantly increasing the applications' performance, scalability and resilience. With key intelligence applications running 75% - 90% faster, enterprises have the opportunity to apply analysis to new and larger problems, gaining competitive advantage by using information more effectively. This presentation will provide an overview of SAS' enterprise-class product offering as well as the value and benefits customers realize by using SAS Grid Computing. The presentation will also highlight use cases for SAS Grid Computing.
4:30 p.m.
Driving IT Virtualization using Enterprise Grid
Re-Inventing the Rules for Enterprise IT
Gary Tyreman
Director – Product Management, Platform Computing
In today’s world of global competition, rapid business change, and narrowing margins, enterprises are under increasing pressure to simultaneously grow revenue and market share while reducing costs and simplifying infrastructure. As a result, technology has become more than simply a process enabler, but rather a key component in building sustainable competitive advantage. To achieve these objectives, heterogeneous technology infrastructures must be made to act as a single virtualized data center that can run any business application on any IT resource at any time, all while lowering capital and operating costs. This talk describes how IT organizations can apply enterprise grid solutions to enhance scalability, manageability and resiliency of their IT environments, ultimately delivering on the promise of aligning IT in real-time with the strategic goals and objectives of the business.
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10:15 a.m.
Platform Technology that Enables Grid and Service-Oriented IT
James Sumner
Marketing Manager, Server Platform Group, Intel
Intel, the market leader in server computing recently launched the new Intel® Core™ Microarchitecture that when combined with critical platform technologies provides the basis for a distributed and shared environment by using virtualized resources. Intel server platforms based on this new Microarchitecture are setting a new standard of energy-efficient performance for scalable Grid deployments and Service-Oriented IT by increasing performance 80% and decreasing power 40% over its predecessors.
11:15 a.m.
Grid Computing – Path to Pervasive Adoption
Mark Linesch
Chair, Global Grid Forum
Built on industry standards, grid computing enables organizations to share computing and information resources across department and organizational boundaries in a secure, efficient manner using the concept of service-oriented architectures. Standardization of such service architectures based on web and grid services is being led by the Global Grid Forum (GGF) and the Enterprise Grid Alliance (EGA) who recently announced an intent to merge and are working closely together to accelerate adoption of grid. GGF and EGA are working throughout the industry to champion architectures, specifications and best practices that will enable the pervasive adoption of grid services for business, engineering and science worldwide. In this talk, GGF Chair, Mark Linesch, will discuss the growing trend to focus horizontally within and across organizations for flexible interoperation, process and data integration, resource and information sharing, and collaborative research and design. He will describe his perspectives on grid computing and outline a path toward pervasive adoption through close cooperation with industry, academia, and the landscape of standards organizations.
1:30 p.m.
Application Virtualization can Accelerate Linux Migration
Jason Huey
VP Sales, North America, DataSynapse
Companies today face an unrelenting pressure to do more with less — and to do it more quickly than ever before. Enterprises are searching for ways to deliver products and services faster and more efficiently than the competition; to reduce risk; and to comply with government regulations. IT departments are turning towards grid computing and virtualization to achieve a greater use of underutilized resources as a cost-effective means to automate processes, boost operational efficiency and achieve greater business agility. Why? Because utilizing an adaptive grid infrastructure can yield significant savings in IT spend along with an increased ability to process information on demand, 24/7/365 — dramatically increasing service levels without adding hardware, software or headcount.
2:30 p.m.
Best Practices for Implementing Grids
Dick Tusia
VP of Professional Services, United Devices, Inc.
Over the last decade, the pervasiveness of departmental clusters has steadily increased as companies have invested in these cost-effective solutions to improve performance and gain a competitive advantage. Now, with disparate clusters present in multiple departments across the global enterprise, companies need the ability to harness this distributed compute power into an intelligently controlled enterprise-wide computing environment. In this presentation United Devices will describe a proven, incremental approach to creating this type of virtualized environment with grid technology, while achieving the appropriate balance between departmental autonomy and centralized control. By following this approach companies can overcome cultural and political barriers to realize the value of enterprise grid computing.
3:30 p.m.
Grid Computing – The Impact of Open Source
Raven Zachary
Senior Analyst and Practice Head, Open Source, The 451 Group
As grid computing establishes itself as the next-generation architecture for computing systems, open source is establishing itself as the appropriate development method. The first true grid deployments, at CERN and Unicore, were built on the open-source Globus toolkit. Open source may be just the thing to help drive further adoption. Though early-adopters face many barriers to the increase of enterprise grid deployments, The 451 Group believes that if grids can find a place in one of the open source stacks, such as LAMP, it would undoubtedly help further adoption.
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