delivering industrial strength middleware [email protected] brussels, 21 st jan 2004...
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Delivering Delivering industrial industrial strength strength
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[email protected]@gridsystems.comBrussels, 21Brussels, 21stst Jan 2004 Jan 2004
Grid Systems, S.A.Grid Systems, S.A.
Founded Feb 2000 by Joan Massó
Based in beautiful Mallorca, Worldwide operations.
Team of 50 people
Commercial Grid middleware platform, solutions and services. InnerGrid & OuterGrid
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We provide a comprehensive Grid platform to Enable, Exploit and Extend
grid solutions.
Designed from the ground up for production business environments where
Robustness, Resilience and Reliability are critical.
Focused on business, not technology per se: Security, Solutions and Support
Grid software and service Grid software and service business modelsbusiness models
Research on business models is criticalWe have studied it a lot…
We participated in an IP that had a very strong proposal on this.
Customers (and analysts, see Tabb report) are increasingly aware of the importance of the Grid Services concept
Interaction with worldwide utility computing effort (economist: futility) billing, QoS, SLA issues.Flexible pay as you go opposed to traditional licensingVery worried by the “noise” about open sourceImportance of added value vs infrastructure
Vague questionsVague questions
Ruling, monitoring and tracing intellectual Property Rights and coexisting software Licensing Models
Some models should be completely avoided (GPL) while some others encouraged (BSD)Monitoring and tracing value is hard… some companies will not be willing to play.
We have signed many many NDAs to protect and be protected. I can not say more
Service grid and e-infrastructureI believe the Telcos have a lot to say here…
Grid economies and ecosystemsBusiness alliances, joint ventures, etc…