Case Studies

Grid and Cloud technologies have successfully been applied to many different and complex business challenges in a number of sectors. Among the example success stories available, the resilience, performance, scalability and flexibility are constant themes. Unsurprisingly, the case studies of successful implementations of Grid and Cloud computing are most common in those industries with complex processing of large data sets, where the speed, agility and stability of the IT systems is directly tied to competitive advantage: the financial sector, the pharmaceutical sector and the engineering sector.

Case studies : the Financial Sector

Case studies from the financial sector include Shinhan Bank, UniCredit Group, Hartford Life, HSBC, Merrill Lynch and Genworth.

Case studies : the Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Sector

The need for researchers to be at the forefront of medical science requires massive simulations of molecular interactions and genetic sequencing. Grid and Cloud computing allow such firms as Incyte Genomics and Applied Biosystems to optimise their systems for the detailed modelling that dominates their industry.

Case studies : the design and engineering sectors

Success stories from these sectors include those from Mental Images, NVIDIA, AMD, Icon and Mental Graphics. The case studies highlight the benefits of Grid and Cloud and discuss why the chosen solution was selected.

Case studies : commerce, logistics and SMEs

There is no need to be a mega corporation or a financial giant to employ Grid and Cloud computing techniques. As can be seen from this set of case studies, Grid technology is Rife within SMEs where it is used for logistics, B2B platforms, commerce and more.

Case studies : Media and Information sectors

These case studies highlight the impact of Grid and Cloud technologies in companies such as Digital Dimension, Rising Sun Pictures, Comic Relief and JDC ltd.

Case studies : the mineral extraction, public utilities and environmental monitoring sectors

These sectors undertake massive simulations of large datasets. The techniques developed in the fields of distributed and parallel computing can be applied to these problems and thus ensure that Grid or Cloud computing have an important and demonstrable role in these industries.

Case studies : Research Institutions

Research Institutions made excellent initial testbeds for Grid computing due to their strong links to academia and their large requirements in computing power. Consequently, this area supplies a high number of success stories and case studies where Grid technologies has been put to work solving large and complex problems,

Case studies : the IT Sector

The use of Grid and Cloud computing to make large platforms of resources that can be resold as "utility computing" is a reality. Firms such as these providers, as well as software providers other IT forms all use Grid or Cloud technology to optimize their systems - as these case studies show.

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