However, the vast amount of data needed to operate today’s grid requires the scale and speed of cloud computing to gather, analyze and derive the necessary insights for a more modern grid.

Because of the huge expense of computers in the 1960s and 1970s, mainframes and minicomputers were time-shared machines, and ...

Ian Foster is widely considered the founder of grid computing, the precursor to cloud computing. Foster is the Arthur Holly Compton Distinguished Service Professor of Computer Science at the ...

Orchestrating the power grid is alot like orchestrating data in a cloud-computing infrastructure. Both involve matching usage with (processing) power, and delivering service anywhere, anytime ...

Itron's Nick Tumilowicz asserts a need for an integrated approach to grid management that processes and acts on real-time data at the edge.

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.

Years before Amazon Web Services launched in March 2006, there were a slew of grid computing startups and incumbent system ...