GRID-1

GRID-1 is a privately owned company, trading since 2000, with 80% technical staff and 20% in commercial and administrative roles. Employees have held senior positions with global organisations including KPMG, Goldman Sachs, IBM, BBC, Equant, TATA, GE Capital, BT and Tesco. We provide virtualisation software that delivers significantly more efficient, scalable and responsive IT applications, data centres and IT infrastructures. Grid computing is the next phase of distributed computing. Built on pervasive Internet standards, it enables organisations to share secure information and computing resources across departmental and organisational boundaries. It is used around the world in areas as diverse as collaborative scientific research, drug discovery, financial risk analysis and product design. Research-oriented organisations now solve insurmountable problems once posed by computing and data-integration constraints. Costs are reduced by automation and improved IT resource utilisation. And an organisation's increased agility means more efficient business processes and greater responsiveness to change. Grid computing is on course to provide a more flexible, efficient and utility-like global computing infrastructure. Core experience includes: Operating Systems: Unix(s), Microsoft, Mac OS and B1/B2 secure Unix Databases: Oracle, Sybase, Informix, MySql, Sequal Server. Languages: C++/C, Java, DHTML, php, perl, jsp. Security Standards: B1/B2, C2, EAL 3, EAL 5. Security Clearances: DV up to Top Secret. Standardisation The key is standardisation. The many resources that make up a modern computing environment can be discovered, accessed, allocated, monitored and generally managed as a single virtual system - even when provided by different vendors and operated by different organisations. With Grid-enabled spreadsheet applications, for instance, shared processing transparently distributes calculations to any number of internal compute clusters.