﻿ Grid computing faces marketing mayhem | ZDNet  Grid computing
faces marketing mayhem  Summary: Vendors define grid computing
as whatever best fits their products. More discipline is needed
to stop the damage  Computer Science 101 Final Paper: In 400
words or fewer, define the following terms while accurately and
concisely describing how they differ from one another: Grid
Computing, Utility Computing, On-Demand Computing, Data Centre-
Virtualisation, and Clustering. (Points will be deducted for
marketing terminology or other flowery language.)  Good news for
Grid computing. The researchers who invented the original
concept and did much of the groundbreaking work have launched a
company to provide Grid support and services. This will speed
the transition of these powerful ideas from academia into the
commercial and enterprise arena: a welcome sign of progress. Yet
the commercialisation of the technology comes at a price.  Grid
computing has become the latest term in the IT lexicon to be
hijacked by sales and m