Grid for Industry in Europe Whats next

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Grid for Industry in EuropeWhats next ?

• Yann Guerin
• EMEA Grid Computing Technical Director
• EGEE First Conference, Cork, April 21st, 2004

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The on-demand Operating Environment Vision
Reduce costs and increase business responsiveness
through IT and business linkage
ENTRY
ENTRY
Integration of people, processes and Information
all built on Open Standards --- hardware,
software, services
Improve working capital and asset utilization
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Grid Computing helps answering business needs

• Quickly Adapt to Changing Requirements
• Improve Operating Efficiency/ROI
• Reduce Capital Expenses
• Accelerate Business Processes
• Enhance Employee Productivity

Cost ?

• Improve Asset Optimization
• Integrate Heterogeneous Resources
• Enable Data Access, Integration
• Enable Collaboration
• Strengthen Redundancy and Resiliency
• Quickly Respond to Variable Demands

As well as IT needs
Yann Guerin Apr 2004
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Towards an operating environment

• Standards are mandatory they are not an option
• There is a long way to go Research is key to
  make it happen
• Europe need Grid Grid need Europe
• Where is there a bigger Virtual Organisation
  environment ?

Tell us what you learn !
Yann Guerin Apr 2004
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For Further Information

• Visit www.ibm.com/grid
• Contact Yann Guerin, EMEA Grid Computing
  Technical Director
• yann_guerin_at_fr.ibm.com
• Questions ?