Grid computing has attracted a lot of attention recently as companies have begun to promote the concept of accessing unlimited computing power from anywhere in the world as easily as users now log on ...

Grid computing's goal of sharing resources is still a plan for many corporate customers; the question is how to get there most effectively. Depending on who describes it, grid computing has grown from ...

Despite its shining promise for establishing elegant, integrated, and cost-effective distributed environments, grid computing has yet to win over skeptical enterprise IT executives and reach ...

UPS has always been driven by technology. It invests close to $1 billion per year in IT. Recently it added the New Data Center technology of grid computing to its infrastructure, says Brian Cucci, ...

Picture this scenario: At 2:37 a.m. during a storm, lightning strikes a distribution feeder line in rural Wisconsin. A massive power surge races through the distribution network. Instead of triggering ...

The Enterprise Grid Alliance, which includes several top vendors trying to accelerate the use of grid computing by big businesses, Monday said it has published its first paper on the unique security ...

The second makes more sense in the context of the grid, rather than a grid. If you can envision the grid as something akin to the Internet — pervasive, yet providing access to abstract computing ...