The Hindu Business Line : Oracle joins enterprise grid alliance

ORACLE Corporation has announced that it has joined industry leaders in founding the Enterprise Grid Alliance (EGA), a consortium created to develop enterprise grid solutions and accelerate the deployment of grid computing.

Through its involvement with the EGA, Oracle seeks to help develop inter-operable systems, lacing many pieces of the enterprise grid computing puzzle.

Enterprise grid computing is capable of delivering a number of benefits including resource sharing, incremental scaling and reduction in information technology requirements.

A combination of complementary products is necessary for grid computing. This approach enables clusters of machines to operate as a single entity, while blade servers and storage-area networks provide a crucial piece of a grid environment.

Mr Benny Souder, Vice-President of Distributed Database Development, Server Technologies Division, Oracle, said in a statement: "Grid computing will revolutionise the way we use technology. As a founding member of the EGA, we look forward to leveraging our experience with grid computing to enable the standardisation and proliferation of enterprise grid computing."

Representing a broad cross-section of leading technology companies, Oracle will join additional founding members EMC, Fujitsu-Siemens, HP, NEC, Network Appliance and Sun Microsystems in driving adoption of grid computing.