1. © 2006 Open Grid Forum Enterprise Adoption: Enabling the Next Generation IT Infrastructure Cheryl Doninger SAS

2. © 2006 Open Grid Forum 2 New world of distributed computing Old WorldNew World Static Silo Physical Manual Application Dynamic Shared Virtual Automated Service

3. © 2006 Open Grid Forum 3 A new world of opportunity and challenges Providers: Deployment, management and change at scale Users: Communication, collaboration and commerce at scale Infrastructure Applications

4. © 2006 Open Grid Forum 4 Industry is still “storming, forming, and norming” on the terms 70% of respondents said there is a better term than ‘grid’ to describe their distributed computing architecture Source: 451 Group, January 2007 Grid Computing - The State of the Market

5. © 2006 Open Grid Forum 5 … as the technology threads are brought together Grid & Virtualization Scale-out multi-core, blades, clusters … Scale-out multi-core, blades, clusters … Process Automation SOA & SaaS Integrated platforms for distributed systems & services

6. © 2006 Open Grid Forum 6 Grid and related concepts - enable the next generation IT infrastructure Data in any format, at any location, accessed and integrated while masking complexity Business & IT processes automated and adjusted based on policy Applications/Services abstracted from the underlying IT infrastructure. Resources shared and aggregated to support dynamic workloads. Grid SOA Virtualization Automation

7. © 2006 Open Grid Forum 7 Adoption is progressing in stages Scientific/ Technical Grids Commercial/ Enterprise Grids Early Deployments Momentum Building (Proven Solutions) Broad Adoption We are somewhere around here Pervasive Adoption “breaking through non- standard barriers”

8. © 2006 Open Grid Forum 8 Popular Grid usage patterns are emerging … Early Deployments Momentum Building (Proven Solutions) Broad Adoption HPC-oriented solutions for research, engineering, and LOB Shared & service- oriented infrastructures that span the data center (s) Multi-organizational collaborations and regional grid infrastructures “Cloud” and emerging Utility Providers … Automotive, Aerospace design … Physics, Weather Forecasting … Research, Engineering … Enterprise Data Centers … Finance, Pharma, Energy … Barriers Social Licensing Standards Education

9. © 2006 Open Grid Forum 9 Grids and Next Generation IT Infrastructure Shared Break the static links between applications, data and the underlying infrastructure Manage resources and relationships based on workload, automated processes, and policies Move toward enterprise-wide shared services that support multiple lines-of-business & partners Shared Current state Future state SilosShared

10. © 2006 Open Grid Forum 10 Setting the Scene “This Gig is Bigger than Grids: from HPC to Service Orientation” John Barr, the 451 Group

11. © 2006 Open Grid Forum 11 Grid and Enterprise Applications – Paths to Adoption Application On-boarding “An Introduction to Grid Application On- boarding” Nick Werstiuk, Platform Computing “Before On-boarding: Board-Rooming” Julia Wells, BEinGRID

12. © 2006 Open Grid Forum 12 Grid and Enterprise Applications – Paths to Adoption Managing Infrastructure “An Introduction to Managing Infrastructure” Paul Strong, eBay “Managing Infrastructure – A Case Study” Steve Lister, Novartis

13. © 2006 Open Grid Forum 13 Grid and Enterprise Applications – Paths to Adoption Relevance of Standards Chris Smith, OGF VP of Standards

14. © 2006 Open Grid Forum 14 Grid and Virtualization “Siamese Twins: Grid and Virtualization” Ravi Subramaniam, Intel “Virtualization” Orran Krieger, VMWare “Virtualization” Jason McGee, IBM

15. © 2006 Open Grid Forum 15 Speaker Panel Discussion Moderator Gordon Jackson, DataSynapse