Grid Benefit
Business benefits
- Accelerate time to results
· can help improve productivity and collaboration
· can help solve problems that were previously unsolvable
- Enable collaboration and promote operational flexibility
· bring together not only IT resources but also people
· allow widely dispersed departments and businesses to create virtual organizations to share data and resources
- Efficiently scale to meet variable business demands
· create flexible, resilient operational infrastructures
· address rapid fluctuations in customer demands|needs
· instantaneously access compute and data resources to "sense and respond" to needs
- Increase productivity
· can help give end users uninhibited access to the computing, data and storage resources they need (when they need them)
· can help equip employees to move easily through product design phases, research projects and more — faster than ever
- Leverage existing capital investments
· can help you improve optimal utilization of computing capabilities
· can help you avoid common pitfalls of over-provisioning and incurring excess costs
· can free IT organizations from the burden of administering disparate, non-integrated systems
Technology benefits
- Infrastructure optimization
· consolidate workload management
· provide capacity for high-demand applications
· reduce cycle times
- Increase access to data and collaboration
· federate data and distribute it globally
· support large multi-disciplinary collaboration
· enable collaboration across organizations and among businesses
- Resilient, highly available infrastructure
· balance workloads
· foster business community
· enable recovery and failure