Cloud computing and grid computing are often mistaken for one another, but the fact is that they’re nowhere close to the same thing. This article explains both systems, and how they differ from one ...

People don’t talk much about grid computing much these days anymore, but most application teams th at require high performance from their infrastructure are actually addicted to grid computing -- ...

Our nation’s economy, security, and the health and safety of our citizens depend on the reliable delivery of electricity. The power system in the United States consists of more than 7,300 power plants ...

The concept of “grid computing” was created in the late 1990s by researchers at Argonne National Labs and other places. Like many revolutionary concepts in IT, including the World Wide Web and ...

We are bombarded daily with ads about products, white papers, publications, seminars, workshops, market projections and more focused on cloud computing. But if you analyze these messages you reach the ...

From a technology perspective, the idea of delivering computing services from the cloud has gone mainstream. Every day, it seems, we end up hearing about or interacting with a new service or app that ...