Autonomic Computing

Benefits of Grid Computing

The business and technology benefits of grid computing are many and varied.

For businesses grid computing can:

• Accelerate time to market

  • Grids help improve corporate productivity and collaboration.

  • Problems can be solved that were previously difficult or unsolvable.

• Enable collaboration and promote operational flexibility

  • Grids bring together not only IT resources, but also end users, clients, suppliers, and other interested people.

  • Widely dispersed departments and businesses can create virtual organizations to share data and resources.

• Efficiently scale to meet variable business demands

  • Grids create flexible, resilient operational infrastructures.

  • Rapid fluctuations in customer demand can be addressed—availability on demand ...