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09/13/2006, 4:00 PM - 4:45 PM
Moderator:
William Fellows, Principal Analyst, The 451 Group.
Speaker:
Software licensing has been identified as an inhibitor to the increased use of grid computing by more than half of the enterprise IT users interviewed by the The 451 Group’s grid adoption research service (GARS). Software license models which can support the more flexible requirements of grid users are necessary in order for grid approaches to find wider enterprise application, especially within the context of ‘grid 2.0’ activities - essentially those which ‘beyond the compute grid.’
Moreover long-term changes in technology purchase models – utility, outsourcing, pay-as-you-go, on demand – as well as new developments such as multicore and virtualization, suggest a change is under way that will have a cumulative and disruptive impact on vendor licensing policies and practices. Can grid be used to manage spiraling software costs in this context?
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