Private cloud models: Moving beyond static grid computing addiction
This guest post comes courtesy of Randy Clark, chief marketing officer at Platform Computing.
People don’t talk much about grid computing much these days anymore, but most application teams that require high performance from their infrastructure are actually addicted to grid computing — whether they know it or not.
Gone are the days of requiring a massive new SMP box to get to the next level of performance. But in today’s world of tight budgets and diverse application needs, the linear scalability inherent in grid technologies becomes meaningless when there are no more blades being added.
