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In 2005, Sun introduced the first global utility grid that allowed businesses to pay only for the computing resources they need. Grid computing is now up and running in a commercial arena and Stuart Wells, Sun's executive vice president of Utility Computing, shares with readers how it's going.
Q: Boardroom Minutes ran a story on Sun Grid Utility Computing in the June 2005 issue. What has changed since then?
A: The big change is that we now have two major Sun Grid offerings and we have enterprise customers using the commercial Sun Grid Compute Utility. Back in June we were focused on one Sun Grid Utility, but in response to customer demand we have introduced both public and commercial offerings. The commercial utility is managed by Sun on company property or in an independent data center. Sun or one of its partners owns and operates the equipment on our customers' behalf. Very recently, VCC, one of our grid customers, purchased another million CPU hours having used their first million in just over three weeks.
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