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09/12/2006, 10:00 AM - 10:45 AM
Speaker:
John Powers, CEO, Digipede.
The field of grid computing for small and medium businesses (SMB) has received increasing attention over the past year. While the grid community has trumpeted the advancement of enterprise grids over the past two years, real-world success stories of grids in SMBs have been less common. This is surprising, given the speed with which SMBs can make decisions. SMBs are far more nimble than large enterprises in their ability to adopt and wring value from new technologies. In this presentation, we discuss four diverse SMBs that have adopted grid computing in their mainstream business. We present real-world applications that have been grid-enabled and put into production by two small and two medium-sized businesses in the past year. We describe the business needs addressed, the implementation process, and the benefits derived. From these four examples, we identify key success factors that can serve as guidelines for future offerings in the SMB market.
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