From Service-oriented IT to Business Value

Today, grid technologies, cloud computing, virtualisation and service oriented architecture are increasingly becoming the daily reality for a wide range of businesses. Technology evolutions are an opportunity for organisations in the private and public sector to re-think their IT strategies, gain greater advantages and ride the wave of IT innovation. Gridipedia explores these opportunities through independent, neutral analysis to serve the wider IT community and enable its representatives to make an informed choice when it comes to innovating the enterprise.

#1 - Service Oriented Architecture : Insights from the frontline

Service Oriented Architecture, commonly referred to as SOA, has a lot to live up to. IT industry vendors, analysts and other commentators have variously positioned it as everything from a silver bullet to solve the World’s systems integration problems to a way of achieving the ultimate level of alignment between IT and the business.

#2 - Enomaly: Elastic Computing Platform

Enomaly's Elastic Computing Platform (ECP) provides a platform for companies to create a scalable infrastructure environment to host and manage applications within and outside its organization. The Control Center is the hub of the platform, a web-based virtual machine manager, giving users the ability to perform many virtual server management tasks from any computer with an internet connection.

#3 - ROI case study Google apps TVR communications

400 employee firm TVR communications provides interactive patient education and entertainment products and services. Today, approximately 150 users use Google Apps for e-mail, calendaring, collaboration, and sharing documents. TVR users make extensive use of Google Sites to support tactical short-term projects and as external point of presence with customers and prospects.

#4 - Driving Forward the Adoption of Standards for Cloud Computing OGF’s Open Cloud Computing Interface (OCCI) Working Group

by Thijs Metsch, Sun Microsystems, OCCI co-chair & certified contributor

The importance of standards in the drive towards the pervasive adoption of cloud computing

Standards are needed to ensure that solutions and applications which are deployed today can be used tomorrow - without a vendor lock-in. When looking into the future standards become even more important when thinking of the Intercloud.

#5 - wow2green - GRMS broker and meta-scheduler

The Gridge Resource Management System (GRMS) is an open source meta-scheduling system, which allows developers to build and deploy resource management systems for large scale distributed computing infrastructures.