T2:  How to Avoid 90% of your Grid Resources
09/14/2006, 2:00 PM - 5:45 PM

Speaker:
Jennifer Galvin, Sales Engineer, Cassatt Corporation.

90% of the servers supporting grid computing environments will sit idle most of the time. Why? It turns out that planning for peak demands means you have a lot of dedicated hardware and software - especially those supporting your critical applications - just waiting for something to happen. Even if that hardware is mostly low-cost Linux boxes, that's a lot of wasted computing power. Is there a way to get to those resources, without jeopardizing application service levels?

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