This may seem like an obvious distinction, but a lot of coverage seems to gloss over the distinction between two aspects of support for grid or cloud computing: Making software run at all on many ...

The concept of “grid computing” was created in the late 1990s by researchers at Argonne National Labs and other places. Like many revolutionary concepts in IT, including the World Wide Web and ...

IBM has defined six types of partners that help move customers to cloud computing, said Dave Mitchell, director of strategy and emerging business for the vendor. These include partners who build ...

In this special guest feature, Wayne Carter, VP Engineering of Couchbase, discusses the current state of edge computing, while digging into the different types of edge (including micro edge, mini edge ...

What is a grid? It’s more difficult to answer this question today than it was in 2002, because commercialization of the technology has resulted in many products and implementations that are labeled ...

IBM Corp. signed on with Oxford University to build parts of a “National Grid” that will link computing systems throughout the U.K. and elsewhere over a shared network. Universities have led the ...