National Grid Seminar Series
Jointly organized with HP Singapore

The Role of Grid in an Adaptive Enterprise

Dr. Sven Graupner
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto

16 November 2004 (Tuesday)
1600 hrs @ The Big One
Institute for Infocomm Research
21 Heng Mui Keng Terrace, Singapore 119613

Abstract

Hewlett-Packard has defined the strategy of an Adaptive Enterprise to enable customers to faster respond to change driven by business needs. It will enable customers to derive a competitive advantage from increased agility in IT systems, which is the key differentiator of IT infrastructure in the future. Accelerated responsiveness is achieved through automation at all scales, from day-to-day operation of resources and applications in data centers to the implementation and maintenance of business processes across organizations.

In 2001, Grid has articulated the vision of service-orientation, collaboration and virtual organizations in a large-scale distributed computing environment. This has been a significant expansion of the scope of Grids over the prior focus on scientific computing only. Since then, new technologies have emerged in Grid such as the Web-Services Resource Framework (WSRF) and the Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA). Those technologies also form the basis for new technologies that foster increased agility and responsiveness in IT systems in commercial data centers.

This presentation will outline how Grid technology is adopted and applied in HP’s Adaptive Enterprise solutions. The presentation will cover the current status of linking commercial data centers to an Enterprise Grid spanning heterogeneous IT systems and multiple organizations. These new technologies also drives automation in IT infrastructure further. They lower cost of ownership and operational costs by utilizing a shared infrastructure of resources and services across the enterprise, and even across enterprises, while yet maintaining demanded levels of security and isolation. These new technologies leverage Grid standards such as WSRF and OGSA and combine them with virtualization capabilities that are available today.

Biodata

Dr. Sven Graupner is a Senior Scientist at HP Labs, Palo Alto, California. At HP Labs, he has had leading roles in several technologies: E-Speak, an early web services middleware in the late 90's, System Factory, a design tool for large-scale services networks, Topology Designer, a tools that introduced formal design methods in the creation of IT solutions, and recently QM, an adaptive data center automation system based on Grid technology.

His current activity is focused on applying Grid technology to commercial data center environments. He defined the technical underpinning of HP's Enterprise Grid strategy and created the first Grid-based control interface for a commercial data center product.

He holds a Ph.D. in Distributed Computing from Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany. He has authored over 50 publications and recently finished a book: "Web Services in the Enterprise: Concepts, Standards and Management" (published by Kluwer later in 2004). He is member of the Steering Committee of CCGrid’2005, a well recognized Grid conference that bridges industrial and commercial aspects of Grids. He also serves as Vice Chair of the Program Committee for CCGrid'05. He is invited to panels and chaired workshops at international conferences. He has filed patents in areas of enterprise management, large-scale system management and utility computing.

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This seminar series is organized by the National Grid Office located at 21 Heng Mui Keng Terrace, Singapore 119613.

Admission is Free. All are Welcome.
Please email to Miss Vasugi (email: vasu@ngp.org.sg) to register a place by 1000 hours on 15 November 2004.