Analysis of Grid Computing Market Segments

The Grid Middleware Market

Currently, Globus Toolkit, gLite and UNICORE are predominantly used in large scientific Grid projects.

Companies in Western Europe will spend up to $45 billion by 2011 on infrastructure software. Grid solutions that address infrastructure needs may be able to gain some share of that spending.

Grid-enabled Applications Market

Based on existing estimates of the proportion of IT spending that is spent on Grid (Insight Research 2006; Forge and Blackman 2006) and estimates of the development of total commercial software spending (Merrill Lynch 2008), the market opportunity for Grid-enabled applications in the area of enterprise applications and custom software is between $3.6 and $4.6 billion in Western Europe by 2011.