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One major function of the grid is to better balance resource utilization.
An organization may have occasional unexpected peaks of activity that demand
more resources. If the applications are grid enabled, the application workload
can be moved to under utilized machines during such peaks. In general, a grid
can provide a consistent way to balance workloads on a wider federation of
resources.
3.2.2 From grid computing to data federation
An increasing number of grid applications manage very large volumes of
geographically distributed data. The complexity of data management on a grid is
due to the scale, dynamism, autonomy, and distribution of data sources.
One way of accessing diverse business information from a variety ...