Posts Tagged ‘grid’

The Green Grid

Friday, April 17th, 2009

In the video, Jon Haas of Intel’s EcoTechnology Program Office explains how The Green Grid, a global consortium dedicated to developing and promoting energy efficiency for data centers and information service delivery, is tackling the energy issues. Data center managers around the world are running into limits related to power, cooling, and space – and the rise in demand for the important work of data centers has created a noticeable impact on the world’s power grids. In response, the members of The Green Grid have taken up the challenge of developing metrics to measure data center efficiency and the tools to improve it. (more…)

Virtual Service-Oriented Grids: Transforming the Enterprise

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

In this members exclusive webinar, Enrique Castro-Leon, enterprise and data center architect and technology strategist at Intel, and Parviz Peiravi, principal architect of enterprise solutions at Intel, discuss the convergence of virtualization, SOA and grids/distributed computing. Although these technologies are individually “old news” with roots back to the 1960’s and earlier, their convergence and the modular deployment of service-based applications are definitely “new news.” The presenters discuss how service modules, or “servicelets”, are appropriate for large and small enterprises. (more…)