Business Grid Computing project activities
Andreas G. Savva, Toshiyuki Suzuki, Hiro Kishimoto · Fujitsu Scientific and Technical Journal · 2004
The recent global diffusion of the Internet has increased the importance of e-business and created new opportunities and challenges. One effect is that the business cycle, from planning to development to operation, is becoming shorter and shorter. Therefore, there is increased pressure on companies and public institutions to construct and manage reliable and flexible application systems at low cost. The Business Grid Computing project is aiming to address these new requirements by developing Grid technology based on virtualization, autonomous control, and unified management of IT resources. The project is based on the Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA), which Is a next-generation standard architecture unifying Grid and Web services technology. To improve the interoperability of Grid systems, the project is also promoting international standardization of the technologies it develops. This paper describes the technologies developed by the Business Grid Computing project and also gives an overview of the standardization activities.