Dell and Partners announce MegaGrid

In an effort to develop a standard approach to building and deploying an enterprise grid infrastructure that can outperform traditional SMP solutions at a lower cost, Oracle, Dell, EMC, and Intel have partnered to form Project MegaGrid. By offering a single, validated set of deployment best practices for grid computing, Project MegaGrid offers practical solutions to common business and IT challenges:

Reducing Cost:  Predefined and pre-tested technology combinations help save money by minimizing downtime, and simplifying the deployment and management of grid infrastructures. Improving Quality of Service:  End-to-end testing, validation, and documentation of clustering, load balancing, and high availability configurations enables IT to set reliable service levels for the business with fast response times. Reducing Risk:  Validated solutions and cooperative engineering minimize downtime and expedite maintenance and support processes. Managing Growth:  Joint Grid solutions revolve around scalability and centralized management to accommodate growth in hardware and users at a low cost. Accelerating Time to Value:  Pre-tested, validated best practices simplify and accelerate deployment time for customers.

Adopting grid technologies can be done today with fast return on investment by taking these three steps:

Standardize  on cost effective servers and storage utilizing Intel®  processors. Consolidate  your databases, applications, servers, and storage. Automate  database, server, and storage management.

Download the Project MegaGrid Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) .

There are three white papers available from Phase I of Project MegaGrid:

Deployment Guidance   - providing detail as to the architectural considerations we took into account when building the Project MegaGrid infrastructure, outlining the core components, and reviewing deployment best practices Performance Management   - our performance management paper details the various monitoring, analysis tools available to accurately assess overall MegaGrid environment performance, as well as provide performance enhancement recommendations, either in the form of technologies or management techniques Capacity Planning   - our capacity planning paper details best practices for designing for scalability, as well as the technologies and management techniques available to simplify and automate capacity management of the MegaGrid environment

Read the MegaGrid press release here: Dell, EMC, Intel and Oracle launch Project MegaGrid to develop enterprise grid computing best practices