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Enterprise Adoption: Enabling the Next Generation IT Infrastructure
(90 mins)
Cheryl Doninger
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1. Setting the Scene
This session will focus on putting Grid in the context of the distributed computing infrastructure, including virtualization, service-oriented architecture, web services and next-generation networks. Emphasis will be on solving business problems and meeting business needs. It will show a variety of areas that can be addressed by Grid, in practical and achievable ways.
Presentations:
• Grids in the Distributed Computing Landscape – Cheryl Doninger, SAS Institute
• Enterprise Computing Strategies - This gig is bigger than grids: from HPC to service orientation – John Barr, the 451 group
2. Grid and Enterprise Applications - Paths to Adoption
IT managers, and the data centers they maintain, are increasing challenged to satisfy agility and flexibility business requirements being driven by our ever more competitive and global economy. Grids and grid-like technologies enable an IT organization to be responsive to quickly changing business requirements and to optimize the ROI of their centrally controlled infrastructure. However, the deployment of a dynamic enterprise grid infrastructure introduces new management challenges to an organization. Processes and tools that organizations may have implemented to deploy, configure and manage a smaller number of larger, statically configured/siloed application specific servers will not meet the ongoing management needs of servers deployed in a shared grid infrastructure.
Many organizations have been forced to build proprietary, home grown solutions to create a management infrastructure that works for their individual environment. Many of these same organizations would like to move to commercial software solutions, however, there is a lack of standards that define how the various layers of the Grid stack can interoperate to provide a cohesive management environment. One key question for a business adopting Grid is where and how to introduce it. This session will provide an overview of enterprise grid technologies and approaches, provide enterprise grid case studies, and frame some current issues/limitations and how they can be addressed in future.
2A) Application On-boarding
Presentations:
• Introduction to Grid Application On-boarding – Martin Harris, Platform Computing
• Before on-boarding: "board-rooming". BEinGRID Business Experiments - Julia Wells, BEinGRID Co-Manager, Atos Origin SAE
Abstract:
Before an organization affronts the challenge of application on-boarding, it is essential to provide convincing business cases to decision makers to justify the shift to new technologies - in short, "board-rooming," with successful real world cases.
BEinGRID is currently carrying out 18 Business Experiments (pilot cases) in diverse sectors (financial, advanced manufacturing, retail and logistics), and is about to commence a second set of Business Experiments after a competitive open call for proposals. This session focuses on one or two outstanding Business Experiments currently underway, detailing from the business point of view the lessons learned. The second phase of pilots has been selected on the condition of grid being the best or only solution. A brief analysis of the new sectors and applications will be covered from a business rather than a technical viewpoint.
2B) Managing Infrastructure
Presentations:
• Introduction to Managing Infrastructure – Paul Strong, eBay
• Managing Infrastructure case study – Speaker TBD
2C) Relevance of Standards – Chris Smith, OGF VP of Standards
3. Grid and Virtualization
Server virtualization is becoming increasingly popular in data centers around the world as organizations consolidate and then re-architect their IT infrastructure to improve utilization and overall flexibility. As the server virtualization industry expands and changes, the way many vendors are defining ‘virtualization’ is beginning to sound very similar to grid computing. It’s no wonder than that many people within the IT industry are confused by where virtualization ends and grid computing begins. This session will define how Grid compliments and extends server virtualization by pooling virtual and physical (non-virtualized) server resources across a wide range of operating systems and platforms controlled and managed as a common resource.
Presentations:
• IBM - Jason McGee
• Siamese Twins: Grid and Virtualization – Ravi Subramaniam, Intel
• VM Ware – Orran Krieger
4. Wrapping it all up
Panel discussion and Q&A
Moderator – Gordon Jackson, DataSynapse
Agenda:
1. Setting the Scene
9:30 – 9:45 AM Grids in the Distributed Computing Landscape – Cheryl Doninger, SAS Institute
9:45 – 10:30 AM Enterprise Computing Strategies - This gig is bigger than grids: from HPC to service orientation – John Barr, the 451 group
2. Grid and Enterprise Applications - Paths to Adoption
Application On-boarding:
10:30 – 11:00 AM Introduction to Grid Application On-boarding – Martin Harris, Platform Computing
11:00 – 11:15 AM Break
11:15 – 11:45 AM Before on-boarding: "board-rooming". BEinGRID Business Experiments - Julia Wells. BEinGRID Co-Manager, Atos Origin SAE
Managing Infrastructure:
11:45 – 12:15 PM Introduction to Managing Infrastructure – Paul Strong, eBay
12:15 – 12:45 PM Managing Infrastructure case study – Steve Lister, Novartis
12:45 – 1:45 PM Lunch
Relevance of Standards:
1:45 – 2:15 PM Chris Smith, OGF VP of Standards
3. Grid and Virtualization
2;15 – 2:45 PM Siamese Twins : Grid and Virtualization – Ravi Subramaniam, Intel
2:45 – 3:15 PM VM Ware – Orran Krieger
3:15 – 3:30 PM Break
3:30 – 4;00 PM IBM – Jason McGee
4. Speaker Panel discussion and Q&A
4:00 – 5:00 Moderated by Gordon Jackson, DataSynapse
Location: Ballroom A/B/C
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| | Slides: Application On-boarding BEinGRID |
| | Slides: Application On-boarding Platform Computing |
| | Slides: Enterprise Computing Strategies 451 group |
| | Slides: Infrastructure Management eBay |
| | Slides: Infrastructure Management Novartis |
| | Slides: Role of Standards |
| | Slides: Setting the Stage |
| | Slides: Virtualization and Grid Computing IBM |
| | Slides: Virtualization and Grid Computing Intel |
| | Slides: Virtualization and Grid Computing VMware |