Enterprises all over the world are fighting against the high cost of their information technology infrastructure. These high costs are caused by three major factors: excessive computing power, high computing power costs, and high management costs.
Grid computing is a new software architecture. It can effectively centralize a large number of low-cost modular memory and servers and create a virtual computing resource that can transparently distribute loads. Grid computing can effectively use computing power, with low cost and high availability. Resources in the grid can include storage, servers, database servers,> application servers and applications. By pooling resources together, grid computing provides reliable, consistent, in-depth, and low-cost access to these resources, regardless of where and when these resources are located. Therefore, grid computing provides the best solution to meet on-demand computing capability and software capacity requirements. So far, although Grid computing is only used by the scientific community to solve very professional problems, however, the cost-effective online storage, high-speed and high-density blade servers, high-speed network interconnection, low-cost operating systems, and system software (database servers and application servers) continue to enhance the utilization of these improvements, this makes it possible for enterprises to use grid computing.
Aware that grid computing can bring important benefits to enterprises, Oracle provides enterprises with a comprehensive solution to manage information and run enterprise applications on the grid. Oracle Database 10 Gb can manage information on a computing grid called a Database Grid. Oracle Application Server 10g (OracleAS 10g) (Component of Oracle integrated middleware) can run enterprise applications on a computing grid called an application server grid. Using the Oracle Enterprise Manager 10 Gb Grid Control, you can efficiently manage the Oracle Database 10 GB and the Oracle Application Server 10 Gb in the Grid computing environment.
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