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http://ianfoster.typepad.com/blog/2007/04/carr_on_grid.html

Utility computing has sparked imaginations. Eliminating capital investment, provisioning resources dynamically and paying as you go for what you actually use are very attractive features. Recovering automatically from hardware failures alone could save many enterprises millions. Many considered this Utopian concept unobtainable, but academics have operated this way for more than a decade through the use of grid computing. Unfortunately, the benefits of grid computing were limited to technical computations and required code written specifically to run on the grid. Mainstream business applications have been locked out. Until now.

Check out this article about grid computing, it’s very good and discusses how grid is changing IT, do check it out, its always nice to see what other people are thinking about grid, particularly outside the finance arena.

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