NetworkWorld has published the transcript of a grid computing panel discussion among leaders from various commercial vendors, including IBM and Cisco. While the discussion has an obvious commercial slant, some interesting thoughts and opinions about the pros and cons of grid computing are shared by some of the leading players. Some of the responses to the moderator questions truly expose the position of some vendors, which may or may not be common knowledge.
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March 8th, 2005 at 10:55 am
The panel discussion you point to is extremely interesting on various fronts. The one that leaped out at me was the way in which this vendor perspective on the grid focuses on “the enterprise.” This is a pretty significant difference from the general point of the research community, especially if you think of the academic research community. There the “enterprises,” in so far as you can identify them, are research universities. The main goal of creating a grid is “cross enterprise” collaboration and resource sharing, e.g. between scientists at different universities. It’s not primarily about rationalizing the cost of or optimizing the efficiency of IT infrastructure investments within an enterprise, though people want to do that too of course. For these vendors, grids enable collaboration and resource sharing within an enterprise, say between different company divisions, not across different enterprises. This difference in perspective affects the way you think about the key issue of interoperability.