IBM extends Grid solutions

Oct 6, 2005: IBM have announced that Higo bank and UniCredit are the newest businesses to deploy its Grid computing solutions.

Higo, one of Japan's regional banks, realising Grid's potential has instituted an information Grid solution from IBM that provides data on demand. This allows it to manage a various loan systems over multiple platforms with real time application integration, speeding up customer loan systems considerably at reduced cost.

Italy's UniCredit discovered the same thing, by implementing a Grid solution on 44 IBM BladeCenter HS20 blade servers running the Red Hat Linux Enterprise Server V3 OS and DataSynapse Gridserver software, UniCredit was able to support its new risk management application and enable near real-time calculations for its customers.

IBM have also announced the expansion of its Grid and Grow offering and the introduction of a new Ready for Grid Computing program. SAS and Absoft Corporation are both participating in Grid and Grow. SAS by delivering an application to bring Grid computing to public, industrial and finance companies, and Absoft by designing a software development kit to accompany Grid and Grow hardware. This when combined with the other announcements, accelerate IBM's commitment to expand Grid computing throughout the industry on a number of fronts.

Grid computing allows organizations to dynamically share information and computer resources, enabling them to rapidly virtualise their existing distributed IT resources, no matter how spread out they are around the globe. Turning non-performing assets into ones that can be used around the clock.

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