DataSynapse Works with Spanish Telecommunications Giant Telefonica; Strategic Collaboration to Create ''Services on Demand'' and Drive Grid Adoption across Spanish and Latin American Markets.BARCELONA, Spain & NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of -- DataSynapse, the fastest-growing provider of adaptive grid infrastructure solutions, has entered into a Collaborative Agreement with Telefonica Soluciones, the solutions provider subsidiary of Telefonica, the leading telecommunications group in the Spanish and Portuguese speaking markets, to offer advanced grid computing grid computing, the concurrent application of the processing and data storage resources of many computers in a network to a single problem. It also can be used for load balancing as well as high availability by employing multiple computers—typically personal benefits to Telefonica's global customer base. GridServer will enable Telefonica Soluciones' customers to move to a "Services on Demand" grid environment where heterogeneous system heterogeneous system n. A chemical system that contains various distinct and mechanically separable parts or phases, such as a suspension. resources are pooled, virtualized and allocated as needed as needed prn. See prn order. to satisfy the unpredictable demand for computing power. GridServer's virtualization An umbrella term for enhancing a computer's ability to do work. Following are the ways virtualization is used. Hardware Virtualization Partitioning the computer's memory into separate and isolated "virtual machines" simulates multiple machines within one physical computer. capabilities improve productivity and performance levels across the customer's enterprise without having to rewrite code or re-factor the entire system architecture. GridServer will dynamically provision services in varying quantities against variable infrastructure resources and prevent over-provisioning of compute resources in different areas of the client organization. It is anticipated that Telefonica's fixed and mobile telephony businesses will quickly and efficiently realize the benefits of a service-oriented architecture See SOA. (SOA (1) (Start Of Authority) The first record in a DNS zone file. See DNS records. (2) (Service Oriented Architecture) The modularization of business functions for greater flexibility and reusability. ), delivering optimized application performance and resource utilization which will guarantee higher service-levels and application resiliency. For Telefonica's 122 million customers, GridServer will enable improved service-levels across the firm's customer portals, faster statement provisioning and powerful reporting with improved reliability. "A handful of European telcos are now poised to begin developing services for external users that employ grids. The telcos have a wide variety of potential business models around grids, from saving money on internal applications to more lofty ambitions of becoming grid resource brokers," said William Fellows, Principal Analyst with The 451 Group, a technology industry analyst company focused on the business of enterprise IT innovation. This comment appeared in an independent 451 Grid Adoption Research Service (GARS GARS Gilliam Autism Rating Scale GARS Glycinamide Ribonucleotide Synthetase GARS Geological Applications of Remote Sensing GARS Groningen Activity Restriction Scale GARS Government Administrative Rate Supplement GARS Global Area Reference System ) report, titled "Grid Computing - The Telco Opportunity," which was published in October 2004 (see Editor's Note Editor's Note (foaled in 1993 in Kentucky) is an American thoroughbred Stallion racehorse. He was sired by 1992 U.S. Champion 2 YO Colt Forty Niner, who in turn was a son of Champion sire Mr. Prospector and out of the mare, Beware Of The Cat. Trained by D. below). "As a world leader in the telecoms services market, we offer our customers the very best service-levels and we are delighted to be partnering with a grid computing firm with proven market expertise," said Eliseo Sanchez Trasobares, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Telefonica Soluciones. "Together, DataSynapse and Telefonica Soluciones will offer the best balance of local knowledge and management with innovative, world-leading grid technology." "No matter the industry, firms are facing an increasing demand for compute power with fewer resources at their disposal, making grid technology an attractive prospect," said Willy Ross, DataSynapse managing director of Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) Refers to that region of the world. For example, one might see products packaged differently for the UK, EMEA and Asia Pacific markets. ). "Our partnership with Telefonica enables us to gain a firm foothold in the Spanish and Latin American markets giving us enormous potential for business growth. GridServer offers powerful capabilities that can add value to firms in any sector, be it financial services, telecoms, government, manufacturing or energy." About Telefonica Telefonica is one of the world's top telecommunications companies and ranked third worldwide in terms of market capitalisation in its sector. Telefonica is the leading operator in the Spanish and Portuguese speaking markets, with access to more than 550 millions potential clients, and the sixth largest operator in the world in terms of market capitalization Market Capitalization A measure of a public company's size. Market capitalization is the total dollar value of all outstanding shares. It's calculated by multiplying the number of shares times the current market price. This term is often referred to as market cap. . Its activities are centred mainly on the provision of fixed and mobile telephony services, having broadband as a key tool for the development of both businesses. For more information, visit www.telefonica.com. About DataSynapse DataSynapse, Inc. provides adaptive grid infrastructure software that virtualizes access to computing and data resources, creating a highly scalable service-execution environment, enabling greater business agility at radically lower costs. The company's flagship products, GridServer and FabricServer, virtualize To cause a virtual technique to be performed. See virtualization. business-critical, enterprise applications and adaptively provision them across available system resources on demand. Open and standards-based, DataSynapse's self-managed solutions eliminate performance barriers and improve productivity levels across the enterprise. DataSynapse works with market leaders in the financial services, government, telecommunications, energy and industrial sectors. The company is headquartered in New York and can be found on the World Wide Web at www.datasynapse.com. Editor's Note: The 451 Group's Grid Adoption Research Service (GARS) report, "Grid Computing - The Telco Opportunity," referenced above, is an independently-produced report that was neither sponsored by nor otherwise funded directly by DataSynapse or Telefonica. The report and its entire contents are the sole property of The 451 Group, copyright 2004, and are reproduced here by permission. The entire contents of this report are available at www.the451group.com. |
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