The concept of “grid computing” was created in the late 1990s by researchers at Argonne National Labs and other places. Like many revolutionary concepts in IT, including the World Wide Web and ...

What is a grid? It’s more difficult to answer this question today than it was in 2002, because commercialization of the technology has resulted in many products and implementations that are labeled ...

Until recently the purview of astrophysicists and drug designers, grid computing is a prime example of “latest-greatest syndrome” in the enterprise technology business. Some bleeding-edge companies ...

Data replication is a cornerstone of modern distributed computing, crucial for ensuring high availability, fault tolerance, and rapid data access in both cloud and grid environments. Contemporary ...

McAfee.com Corp. Tuesday took the wraps off a new strategy and technology that should allow the company to provide broader, more intelligent security services to its customers using XML (Extensible ...