Abstract:   Grid computing technology provides an effective enterprise solution in aggregating distributed resources within the organization and allocating resources according to the priority of tasks. These types of solutions capable the enterprises in saving the cost of business operations. Due to the increasing interest of the business community in Grid Technology, Grid computing is rapidly moving from academic and scientific research towards the mainstream of enterprise application. Today, the Enterprise Grid involves a range of applications that are used for data centers and application clusters to distributing workloads of applications. This research paper discusses the major initiatives made in the area of Enterprise Grid computing. The paper has focused on the development of various types of Enterprise Grids systems for the Enterprises solutions, during the different period of times and also describes the major feature of each type of Enterprise Grids. Finally, it concludes with the prospects of Enterprise grid computing as a viable infrastructure for public and private enterprises for achieving competitive advantage by harnessing unutilized IT resources within the enterprises.

Keywords:   Grid technology, enterprise grid systems, enterprise solutions, virtual private network

Publisher:   ILMA UNIVERSITY

Published:   1 June 2010

Issue:   Issue 1 : Volume 6

E-ISSN:   2409-6520

P-ISSN:   2414-8393