According to 451 Group analysts, grid computing is becoming an integral part of virtualization and service-oriented architectures (SOA). As a result, the term grid computing 'will become both more relevant and less used in 2007. It will be more relevant as grids are used to support far more than HPC tasks, but less used as vendors seek to be associated with far more activity, and far higher up the stack, than grid computing.' continue
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