One in five companies may deploy grid technology during the next two years, according to a survey of some 550 database administrators and developers by Evans Data Corp. [InfoWorld: Top News] Interesting.

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Xgrid uses Apple's Rendezvous technology to automatically discover available computing resources on a network. Again, a grid that requires a private network. Think Secret has been following Xgrid since October 2003. The only official material I can find on the Apple site is the xgrid-user mailing list. It is cool that Apple is in the game, but that would be one expensive grid running G5's.

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I often read the analogy of the computing resources being like electricity, cable, and other wire based utilities. The problem with this analogy is that computing resources such as CPU time, memory, and disk don’t run through a wire like electricity. You may access these resources through a wire, but this is very different from the resources flowing through a wire to you.

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An essential part of any IT manager's reading list, or listening list in this case, should be IT Conversations by Doug Kaye. The "studio" that Doug uses is quite amazing, as this post illustrates. It rivals any radio station. I'm curious how much the entire studio cost. This kind of power in the hands of an individual is amazing.

Hey, Doug, do you want to expand the content coverage of IT Conversations? It would be great to have subject matter experts arrange conversations in their field and begin expanding IT Conversations to other topics such as storage, security, networking, wi-fi, etc. What do you think?

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[Grid Computing Planet: News] The unfortunate aspect of this deal is that a private network is being created to run this grid. If grids can't find their way to the the Internet, as everything else has, they will be forever locked behind closed doors.

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[New Scientist] I've got to check this out. This would be a very cool way to upload rough systems diagrams and sketches before they get cemented in Visio.

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