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Published on August 29, 2007

According to Oracle Grid Index IV report revealed that the rate of growth of organizations in Asia Pacific (APAC) adopting Grid Computing is higher than the rest of the world, according to the Oracle Grid Index IV report released today. The study showed an 83% year-on-year rise of organizations in APAC that have implemented or plan to implement a Grid Computing system, compared to lower growth in the USA (45%) and Europe (7%).

Oracle has also seen significant uptake in our Grid technologies from the growth in customers for Oracle© Real Application Clusters (RAC), one of the building blocks for Grid Computing architectures.  These customers are all leveraging a Grid model to enable a consolidated infrastructure that can virtualize computing resources and provision dynamically at the lowest possible cost.

The fundamental research conducted is dedicated to mapping the world's journey to Grid Computing. At a global level, measured on a scale of 0 to 10, the Oracle Grid Index has risen to 5.4 from its previous value of 5.2. All of the underlying indices making up the overall Grid Index - Foundation Readiness, Knowledge & Interest and Adoption Lifecycle - show steady increases in virtually all geographies. Analysis of the Grid Index numbers over its previous three cycles reveals a pattern of a maturing technology in the process of crossing the chasm between early adoption and mainstream use.

The Oracle Grid Index research reveals a major increase in pilot projects and departmental grids, as opposed to major migration of legacy environments; these "new" Grid Computing projects are at the leading edge, and suggest a significant and imminent rise in Grid Computing adoption as pilots get rolled out across other parts of the organizations.

Grid Computing is an ideal infrastructure for deployment - an approach that accommodates today's critical business need for flexibility and dynamism.  As an advocate of Grid Computing technology, Oracle will continue to innovate and develop initiatives that speed solution time to market, support communities, and lower the cost of computing for our customers. 

Kriangsak Tiawsirisup, sales consulting manager, Oracle Corporation (Thailand) said in the conference entitled "Thai Grid Computing Conference 2007" held in Bangkok by King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT) and Thai National Grid Center (TNGC) during August 23-24, 2007 that now is a high level of uptake of Grid computing, but within more tightly constrained usage scenarios. Pilots are resulting in definite implementations, but these implementations are based on advanced clustering of single applications. Organisations are still going through various rationalisation initiatives, aimed at lowering the number of physical servers under management, in instances of applications running, in application server platforms being used and so on. 

The aims here are two-fold: one is to reduce cost, and rationalisation helps here by requiring fewer different skills and fewer resources to manage an equivalent set of processes, and the other is to create a more responsive infrastructural platform for the future.

There are now broad usage of Grid as a targeted tool points towards organisations beginning to utilise the power of their previous work on standardisation and rationalisation.

"We believe organisations will rapidly find that these islands of Grid will be relatively easy to bring together, enabling multiple service-based composite applications to share technology resources and provide greater flexibility for organisations going forward," said Kriangsak.