W Europe Grid computing server market to reach $1.8 bn.A recent IDC study shows that 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 adoption in Western Europe Western Europe The countries of western Europe, especially those that are allied with the United States and Canada in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (established 1949 and usually known as NATO). , although still nascent, is expected to reach beyond the high performance computing (UPC (Universal Product Code) The standard bar code printed on retail merchandise, which is administered by GS1 US, Brussels, Belgium and Lawrenceville, NJ (www.gs1.org). ) space and will become more pervasive in commercial data centers over the next few years. IDC's European Enterprise Server Group forecasts that grid computing will approach $1.8 billion in server revenue by 2008 across HPC (Handheld PC) A palmtop computer that weighs less than one pound and runs specialized versions of popular applications. Microsoft coined the term for its Windows CE operating system, which is an abbreviated version of Windows. See Pocket PC. technical markets and commercial applications. The study builds on IDC's server research group investigations into emerging grid technology in an attempt to define and size the present and future grid computing space in Western Europe, in particular the incremental server revenue attached to grid computing. Key findings: * Primary customer motivations, adoption scenarios, targeted workloads, and business needs suggest that the grid market is beginning to split into three distinct segments: compute, data, and optimization. * Early adoption has largely been in the high-performance computing High-speed computing, which typically refers to supercomputers used in scientific research. market for large batch-oriented grids. * Emerging opportunity is focused primarily on the pooling and allocation of resources allocation of resources Apportionment of productive assets among different uses. The issue of resource allocation arises as societies seek to balance limited resources (capital, labour, land) against the various and often unlimited wants of their members. across a variety of business services. * While potential opportunity is both broad and significant, them are numerous and varied challenges and obstacles to adoption: * Cultural and organizational concerns associated with resource sharing - e.g., the comfort factor associated with virtualized resources for business units. * General lack of commercial applications running in a grid environment. * General lack of tools and industry standards leading organizations to think of grids as requiring large people and services costs, which lessen any infrastructure cost savings. * Security concerns. www.idc.com |
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