Industry Leaders Unite to Develop Standard Approach to Enterprise Grid Computing

Strategic Insights -

Dell Inc., EMC Corporation, Intel Corporation, and Oracle have formed a collaborative effort, known as Project MegaGrid, to create a standard approach to building and deploying an enterprise grid computing infrastructure. The initiative aims to develop comprehensive best practices for enterprise grid computing, including scalability, performance, and manageability, to help organizations reduce the cost of their IT systems and improve application service levels.

Key Takeaways:

  • Four industry leaders, Dell Inc., EMC Corporation, Intel Corporation, and Oracle, have formed Project MegaGrid to develop a standard approach to enterprise grid computing.
  • The project focuses on designing, testing, and documenting industry-standard best practices for building effective enterprise grid computing infrastructures, taking into account cost and performance requirements.
  • Project MegaGrid has invested technical resources to develop, test, and validate enterprise grid computing best practices, including contributions from Cramer and F5 Networks, Inc.
  • Cramer provides a highly-scalable commercial application to Project MegaGrid, featuring full-scale data sets and real-world business transaction processing.
  • F5 Networks provides BIG-IP switches to Project MegaGrid to guarantee application availability and accelerate application performance.
  • Online retailer Overstock.com is working with the four companies to build out an enterprise grid computing infrastructure, citing the benefits of a low-cost, flexible grid computing infrastructure that can scale with business growth.
  • Project MegaGrid will provide openly available best practices to simplify management of grid computing environments, leveraging the combined expertise of the four sponsors.

Statistics:

  • $47.3 billion: Company revenue for Dell Inc. for the past four quarters.
  • 4 companies: Participating in Project MegaGrid to develop a standard approach to enterprise grid computing.
  • 1 phase: Initial phase of Project MegaGrid focused on designing, testing, and documenting industry-standard best practices.
  • 1 Data Center: Oracle Global IT Data Center serves as a working infrastructure for Project MegaGrid, architected, configured, and validated.

Sources:

  • "Industry Leaders Combine Technical Resources and Expertise to Address Industry Need for Tested and Validated Approaches to Enterprise Grid Computing" (no date or publication provided)
  • Company press releases and websites, including:

+ "Dell Inc." (http://www.dell.com/)

+ "EMC Corporation" (http://www.emc.com/)

+ "Intel Corporation" (http://www.intel.com/)

+ "Oracle Corporation" (http://www.oracle.com/)