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to decide on the use of IT budget, or be in the position to influence planning of IT
purchase; b) be involved in tasks that require extensive IT resources at least once a
year. 369 people participated in the survey. Most of them (54%) worked for compa-
nies with at least 250 employees.
Those survey results that can most likely serve as an indication for the current
status of general industry adoption of Grid are presented below (Messerschmidt
2009):
•
Grid technology is not very well known.
Almost half of survey participants
(48%) heard of the term “Grid Computing” for the first time from the survey.
22% became aware of Grid Computing within one year prior to the survey. A
quarter of participants have known Grid technology since 2 to 5 years. 5% have
known it for longer than 5 years.
•
Current usage of Grid technology is very limited.
81% of participants stated
Grid technology is currently not used in their company.
•
Grid is predominantly used to obtain additional IT resources.
53 companies
(14%) use Grid to obtain additional IT resources (see also fig. 14.1). 8 companies
(2%) use Grid to provide/share idle IT resources. 9 companies (3%) use Grid to
obtain additional IT resources and also to provide/share idle IT resources.
•
Grid is mostly used internally or in mixed environments.
As figure 14.1
shows, the majority of those companies using Grid (in total 70 companies) do so
internally (31 companies) or in mixed environments (internally and externally)
(25 companies).
The survey results presented above and in figure 14.1 provide also indications for
which type of Grid companies use. The different types of Grids are described in
detail and illustrated with examples in section 3.5.2 in chapter 3.
