Features and Benefits

Features
- A single enterprise grid environment that is scalable, flexible, extensible and fully customizable
- Single, cohesive management environment
- Extensible framework to provide the core services across multiple enterprise application types
- Policy based resource allocation decisions in real-time
- Enterprise scalability
- Open, standards-based approach
Benefits
- Delivers sustainable competitive advantage through the optimization of mission-critical enterprise applications and processes; brings the strength and reliability of grid computing to the enterprise
- Simplifies management and removes the need to build silos of dedicated resources; improves the availability of the entire environment
- Lowers the total cost of Enterprise IT through improved utilization of resources and reduced operating expenses; responds to changing business needs in real-time across all environments
- Prioritizes workloads with business policies to maximizes performance; ensures high priority workloads have access to more resource when required
- Supports core services across tens of thousands of resources in a single domain; scales across geographically dispersed sites
- Enables rapid application deployment and extensibility across multiple system types; leverages existing infrastructures, technologies and tools for ease of integration and investment protection


