Two- or four-processor computing is the typical entry point in lieu of grid computing. If it works on inexpensive servers, then good for you.

That said, software as a service is an evolution, not a replacement for software as we know it.

Intel is working very hard to make this dual-core turn, and doing a surprisingly good job at it,

Applications also can be connected pretty seamlessly, which is a major shift with respect to what formerly could be achieved with respect to all these islands of automation? They can finally stop thinking about application...

Many companies will not feel safe from privacy, service availability, or regulatory-compliance perspectives having all of their activities hosted outside their organizations’ firewalls. Even so, they might want the benefits of not having to install...

He’s been calling a lot of the plays over the last couple of years. This is his architecture, this is his strategy that Sun is playing. He has really put a lot of energy and...

This is a more shrink-wrapped approach for the concept of grid computing that targets a more modest area of use.

She teetered really, really, really close to just being disrespected everywhere. But so did Lou Gerstner in his early days at IBM. If she’s successful, it’s a new model.

While perfectly ready for prime time today, there are still some ingredients that have not yet been completely baked and the process of evolution is still underway.

The one clear winner in all of this is IBM. IBM appears to be doing better and better because they are so damn stable.

HP is the Unix vendor that drove this trend toward virtualization in the mid-90s, so they’ve been working on it for some years but haven’t always marketed it effectively,

A lot of energy was being diffused and burned up in the process.

A lot of the management of distribution is common sense. The problem is getting everyone’s interests reasonably well aligned, getting people to play nicely together even though their interests are often not strictly aligned, and...

High-speed or broadband networks are now common. Server operating systems are highly scalable and ready to support thousands or tens of thousands of clients.

I don’t see this as a crushing delay, but it certainly is embarrassing. It sounds like a four- to five-month delay, and that’s not a disastrous day for Intel.

This can reduce response time tremendously. It gives them more bites at the apple.

Sun Grid is pretty much a laughingstock, because they announced it multiple times and they failed multiple times to deliver it.

The amount of computing resources put into place with a grid architecture can be enormous. Companies get to add the equivalent of a couple thousands PCs and that added horsepower that they do not have...

There are a couple of models that are easy to imagine.

In the past, a process or a function could still be automated but it was almost impossible to integrate multiple functions, geographies, and systems. But now you can have applications up and running that I.T....

Web-services technology is complicated stuff. You’ve got all sorts of standards governing security , reliability, and message bundling, and there are 30 or 40 major specifications and standards involved as well as a couple hundred...

A lot of these high-end business applications have a very high return on their investments. With grid architecture you can be ready to do that.

The real threat is no longer letting those incredibly powerful suppliers drive a truck through the middle, … In the old days, if HP didn’t go the way Microsoft wanted, they would say, ‘That’s fine....

It’s not so much a calculated security equation as an icky feeling about doing things differently.