Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA) is a set of standards that extends Web services and service-oriented architecture to the grid computing environment. OGSA definitions and criteria describe how ...

Siemens announced a Smart Grid Architecture Model (SGAM) which it is promoting as an open standards technical model for smart power generation, distribution and use. Siemens Infrastructure & Cities ...

Picture this scenario: At 2:37 a.m. during a storm, lightning strikes a distribution feeder line in rural Wisconsin. A massive power surge races through the distribution network. Instead of triggering ...

IBM Corp. signed on with Oxford University to build parts of a “National Grid” that will link computing systems throughout the U.K. and elsewhere over a shared network. Universities have led the ...

NEC has announced the details of its long-awaited grid storage system, HydraStor, which should ruffle some feathers in the storage industry. (See NEC preps grid-based backup appliance.) HydraStor is ...

Serverless functions are a deceptively simple idea that while not especially new, only makes sense in the context of shared cloud services of immense scale. Still, serverless as a reality is both new ...