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SAN FRANCISCO – (Business Wire) DataSynapse, Inc., a world leader in dynamic application service management software for the next-generation data center, today announced the results of a market survey which cited High Performance Computing edging out Virtualization as the most important IT initiative over the next 12 months. The survey, conducted through an independent third-party with 100 senior IT executives spanning Financial Services, Communications & Media and the Public Sector, surprisingly ranked Green IT initiatives as last.

Other findings include integration with existing architecture as the biggest challenge related to Cloud Computing, citing scalability as the second biggest obstacle. The survey also revealed that 91 percent of respondents cited four key areas that would be the most helpful with their IT processes: the ability to tie business metrics to services; policy-driven server provisioning capabilities; dashboards and real-time reporting; and the ability to dynamically scale applications to meet peak service levels.

Very cool, I see virtualization, VMWare as the first step to a great project of virtualization of the infrastructure and the application. To a point where the workload is independent of the infrastructure, where I can move my IT around the business need. That my trading systems are down on a Saturday, could I not allocate processor, memory, infrastructure capacity to the back office deal capture/settlements or risk applications? Where outages can (to a degree) be absorbed into the infrastructure, that New York going offline because of a data center power failure isn’t a world ending experience. Where I can dynamically allocate workload around, or even have that workload run where the power, the carbon rating is lowest?

The challenge with grid computing is one of perception on several fronts, it can present an issue of ownership, as an application team, by developing my application to work on ‘shared infrastructure’ can challenge my ownership of the code, the service. When it’s my own server, I can log in, see what’s going on, speak to the Windows or Unix guys and ask questions, in grid it might be more complicated (unnecessarily so).

But these challenges are linked to virtualization as a whole and represent a need to move to a more open way of IT delivery, you want a log in to see what’s going on – fill your boots. You want the performance statistcis of the broker, the number of transactions performed, again fine.  What we need to do is build up the level of trust between application teams and infrastructure, at the same time, we need to implement a billing method that works within the political remit as well as financially. Everyone needs to pay their way, pay for the code that they use, but it needs to be affordable and proven/run in a service/customer orientated way using things like the change process -with clear documentation on a wiki/intranet page with a newletter – what’s going on in the grid? Remember that communication can be just as important as the product working itself, one negative comment can override your core achievements with other user groups/business lines.

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