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For subscription information, email gridfree@gridtoday.com All comments regarding content should be sent to: grideditor@gridtoday.com -------------------- * -------------------- [ ] 740098 ) ALTIX(TM) FAMILY OF SERVERS AND SUPERCLUSTERS SGI Combines the Industry Leading Performance Of the Intel(TM) Itanium(TM) 2 Processor With a Production-Class Linux(TM) Soltion IN THIS ISSUE: [ ] 103046) 7 STEPS TO SUCCESSFUL GRID COMPUTING [ ] 103045) INTERVIEW WITH WOLFGANG GENTZSCH OF MCNC [ ] 103043) BLATECKY LEAVES SDSC, BECOMES RENCI DEPUTY DIRECTOR [ ] 740099 ) THREE NEW, GROUNDBREAKING GRID REPORTS RELEASES Three New, Groundbreaking Grid Reports from IDC, Economic Strategy Institute and Micron Technologies to be Released at Gt'04 and will be included with conference registration. http://www.gridtoday.com SPECIAL FEATURES =========================================================== [ ] 103043) BLATECKY LEAVES SDSC, BECOMES RENCI DEPUTY DIRECTOR Alan R. Blatecky, an expert in Grid computing, middleware, advanced networking and research program development, will join the interdisciplinary Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) as deputy director, effective May 10. [ ] 103044) LEADING GRID COMPUTING EXPERT WOLFGANG GENTZSCH JOINS MCNC As managing director of MCNC's Grid Computing & Networking Services company, Gentzsch will direct MCNC's Grid strategy and technology development, including the development of one of the nation's first statewide research and education Grids. [ ] 103045) INTERVIEW WITH WOLFGANG GENTZSCH OF MCNC By Alan Beck, Editor-In-Chief Managing director of MCNC's Grid Computing & Networking Services company, Wolfgang Gentzsch, speaks to GRIDtoday Editor-In-Chief Alan Beck about Gentzsch's departure from Sun, his current position at MCNC, and the outlook for the Grid computing industry in general. [ ] 103046) 7 STEPS TO SUCCESSFUL GRID COMPUTING By Brooklin J. Gore, Senior Fellow, Micron Technology Inc This report, along with two other new, groundbreaking Grid reports from IDC and the Economic Strategy Institute will be released at Gt'04 and included with conference registration. www.gridtoday.com/04/conference/index.html [ ] 103047) GRIDBUS PROJECT STATUS REPORT In this article, we present an overview and status of an open source Grid toolkit, called Gridbus, the architecture of which is fundamentally driven by the requirements of Grid economy. Gridbus technologies provide services for both computational and data Grids that power the emerging eScience and eBusiness applications. [ ] 103048) TOP VENDOR REPS MEET AT SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT 2004 A panel consisting of representatives from Oracle, Sun, BEA, Microsoft, IBM and eWEEK magazine discussed a range of topics specifically related to the relationship between XML and SQL at Software Development 2004. [ ] 103049) DEFINING A CONCEPT FOR EXTENDING NETWORK SYSTEMS, SERVICES By K.S. Venkatram In this article, I will proceed with the related Nth'Connection Core Engineering, Interaction with Open Universal Technology Stations/Servers, effectiveness in working with remote services and systems. [ ] 740095 ) INTEGRATE, ACCELERATE, INNOVATE Sun Grid Everywhere Technologies SYSTEMS/ENTERPRISE ========================================================= [ ] 103050) CASSATT CORP NAMES RICHARD GREEN EVP OF PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT Green, who will lead global development efforts at Cassatt, joins the company from Sun Microsystems Inc where he served most recently as vice president of Sun Developer Platforms and Java Software. [ ] 103051) CISCO UNVEILS BUSINESS READY DATA CENTER INITIATIVE Business Ready Data Center provides the solutions, services, partners and tested architectural design and deployment guides that allow customers to protect applications and information, share computing and storage resources and support emerging service-oriented architectures. [ ] 103052) MICROSOFT, MICRO FOCUS FORM MAINFRAME MIGRATION ALLIANCE The alliance lays the technology foundation to move application workloads from the mainframe to more modern Intel architecture and the Windows Server platform. It aims to help customers reduce the high cost of maintaining and modernizing their aging mainframe environments. [ ] 103053) UTILITY COMPUTING COMES TO DATA CENTERS Troux Technologies, a leading provider of strategic IT management (ITM) software, announced that it has joined the Data Center Markup Language (DCML) Organization.In addition to joining the organization, Troux will fully support DCML in the Troux Reference Model. [ ] 103054) VERITAS, BEA DELIVER OPEN UTILITY PLATFORM FOR ENTERPRISE APPS The joint offering is slated to include versions of VERITAS Indepth for J2EE application performance management software, VERITAS Cluster Server high availability solution and VERITAS OpForce server provisioning software integrated with BEA WebLogic and Tuxedo platforms. [ ] 740096 ) HP -- Grid Computing: IT outside the box APPLICATIONS =============================================================== [ ] 103055) BEA, ACCENTURE JOIN FORCES TO UNTANGLE WEB SPRAWL The eCommerce and Portal Rationalization offering is designed to reduce the complexity that hinders companies from achieving among other things, increased visibility into real-time business performance and improved customer service. [ ] 103056) COLLATION LAUNCHES CONFIGNIA 2.0 The new product release builds on Collation's patent pending agent-free auto-discovery engine, built-in Data Center Reference Model, and innovative user interface to provide IT Operations personnel with complete top-down understanding of applications and their infrastructures. [ ] 103057) GAS PORTFOLIO OPTIMIZATION ENHANCED WITH NEWENERGY VECTORGAS VectorGas is powered by an advanced Monte Carlo engine, linear programming techniques and NewEnergy's Grid computing technology, which efficiently harnesses multiple processors for fast run times. [ ] 740097 ) Intel - Deploying Hardware and Software in a Large Enterprise BREAKING NEWS ============================================================= SECURITY [ ] 103058) NetScreen In 'Leader Quadrant' Of Gartner Report [ ] 103059) XWall Web Services Firewall Adds Protection To Oracle 10g [ ] 103060) GTSI Joins NetBotz Partner Program [ ] 103061) Nat'l Cyber Security Partnership Releases Industry Framework [ ] 103062) NetScreen Raises Bar With Next-Generation Security Platform PLATFORMS [ ] 103063) New Processors Drive Lower Cost Intel Itanium 2-Based Systems NETWORKING [ ] 103064) Chiaro Networks Expands Asian Presence To South Korea [ ] 103065) Foundry Introduces Industry-Leading Load Balancing Switches [ ] 103066) Internet Photonics Utilizes NextHop GateD Technology [ ] 103067) Inkra Licenses NextHop's GateD NGC 2.x Routing Software [ ] 103068) Packeteer Introduces PacketShaper 9500 [ ] 103069) RADCOM Intros Next-Gen Analyzer For Multi-Service Networks [ ] 103070) Radware Awarded Patent For Load Balancing Technology [ ] 103071) SAVVIS To Provide IT Services For Boston Options Exchange [ ] 103072) Momentum Building For Silicom's Gigabit Ethernet Adapters [ ] 103073) New Spamhaus-Backed Proposal Could Take Bite Out Of Spam [ ] 740073 ) CALL FOR SPEAKERS GRID TODAY 2004 (Gt04) -- the first major conference and exhibition to focus on the emerging market for commercial business applications of Grid computing, has issued a Call for Speakers We are looking for high-level speakers from commercial organizations to speak on applications and implementation of Grid computing http://www.gridtoday.com STORAGE [ ] 103074) NetApp Moves To Storage Grids OPERATING SYSTEMS & MIDDLEWARE [ ] 103075) Oracle JDeveloper 10g Enhances Grid Architectures [ ] 103076) Oracle 10g Bests MS SQL Server 2000 In Head-To-Head Test [ ] 103077) TurboWorx Announces Enterprise 4.0 GENERAL [ ] 103078) Verari Systems Acquires MPI Software Technology QUOTE OF THE WEEK ========================================================== [ ] 103045) "Grid computing was always supported by Sun's executive team. 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