The continuous emergence of new products, the growth in the business activity, and the increased regulatory scrutiny have forced industries, in general, to face new challenges. Today’s IT-resources, applications, developers, and data centers must become more agile to respond to the new business needs. Traditional IT infrastructures are incapable of offering a flexible, scalable, and cost-effective framework. Our grid technology can bring the benefits of traditional HPC grid technologies, plus the added benefits of a modern grid middleware with application virtualization:

• Business unit: One of the critical business benefits of grid technology is scalability and the shortening of the time-to-market periods. The grid unified vision of computational resources means scalable and agile power. A Grid platform creates more flexible and resilient operational infrastructures that are capable of efficiently scaling in order to meet variable business demands or even solve problems that were previously unsolvable. Today, business can do more with less, like improving the quality of their data, increasing their sample size, performing more in-depth analysis, or getting a smarter use of their resources. Being able to address rapid fluctuations in customer demands and needs can improve their marketing decisions and their relationship with customers. All this results into a more competitive businesses model.
  
• Production unit: A Grid platform also brings centralized administration of resources, users, services, and policies which reduce the complexity and cost needed to manage the working environment, simplifying complexity and facilitating collaboration among system administrators. Moreover, a Grid platform can be autonomous; it can administer itself and do self-monitoring, maximizing production times. These self-monitoring capabilities create a more robust, resilient, and secure production environment.
• Technology / Development Unit: Working in an environment where computing power and data storage capability is virtually unlimited equips users with the ability to design, test, and research extensively, and thus producing a much a higher-quality product. A Grid-based infrastructure centralizes and standardizes computing power, data, administration and workload management. From the developing side of a business, a grid environment drastically reduces developing time and costs. Developers can program applications for a single environment, without having to worry about distributed computing and parallelization issues, as our SDK provides high level API to allow them to treat the whole grid fabric as a single virtual machine. In turn, this consolidation also enables large multi-disciplinary collaborations across organizations and among business units, fostering communities of developers from several businesses.