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I had an interesting conversation this week with Forrester’s Frank Gillett about his latest report, which concludes that the term “grid computing” (as well as “high-performance computing”) does not generate interest in typical enterprises. The report includes all sorts of percentages regarding levels of interest and adoption, but the bottom line (at least in North America and Europe) is quite simply that there are more IT decision-makers not interested in grid computing than there are IT decision-makers interested in grid computing.

Gillett attributes much of this apathy to the fact that grid computing is, in general, beneficial to vertically specific applications. Most businesses, he notes, do not have much use for its ability to run parallelized, compute-intensive workloads in their general-purpose environments. “There will be usefulness in general-purpose solutions like Platform and DataSynapse,” he explained. “However, with any application that benefits from [grid computing] in a big way, the ISV will build it in, or they will OEM the technology from one of those guys.” In some cases, he added, organizations might be taking advantage of grid computing without realizing it because it has been embedded into their applications out of the box.

Alternatively, I think much of this disinterest might result from people applying such a constrained definition to “grid computing.” Grid has spawned several new technologies over the past few years (e.g., grid-based application platforms, applications fabrics, etc.) that, if considered grid computing, seem applicable to a far broader range to users. When asked just about “grid computing,” though, with no explanation of what that encompasses, respondents go with what they believe to be the reality. Clearly, however, enterprises do not perceive these related solutions to be grid computing, so perhaps it is my definition that needs to be amended.

Check out this article talking about grid computing, it was an interesting read talking about grid and virtualization, it raises some interesting points about grid technologies, do check it out.

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