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Table 5.2:
End products and associated models for the different scenarios
Most popular Grid
Business Cases in the
market
Main actors involved
Associated Products/
Services
Applicable BMs
per actor
1. Company utilises an
internal Grid solution as a
virtualisation technique to
improve the utilisation of
resources (also known as
the “Enterprise Grid”)
The company
None. Solution is
utilised for mini-
mising costs
None directly.
Grid s/w and applica-
tion providers
Software (e.g. middle-
ware)
- Software or
Application provi-
sioning (SaaP)
- Open source
Systems integrator (can
be the same with the
Grid s/w provider)
-
- IT services
- VAS (e.g.
consulting)
2. Company rents external
computing resources
through the internet with
Grid being the under-
lying infrastructure on the
provider's side
The company
None. Can be used
indirectly to support
other services provi-
sioning or to optimise
internal processes and
products
- None if used to
optimise internal
processes
- IT/Web services/
SaaS if used as
infrastructure for a
solution
Resources provider
(e.g. Amazon & Sun)
- See case No. 5
Services offered as
SaaS
- See case No. 5
SaaS/HaaS/IaaS
based
3. Company Grid-enables
existing application or
develops an application
optimised to run over the
Grid (BEinGRID BEs
cases) and offers it to
external clients
The service or appli-
cation provider (the
company)
Service or Application
- SaaP if offered
through a license
- SaaS if offered
for renting over
the net
The user that either
buys or rents the solu-
tion
May use the applica-
tion to deliver new
products/services or
optimise existing
Many options such
as VAS
The Grid software
provider
-
- Software or
Application provi-
sioning (SaaP)
- Open source
Systems integrator (can
be the same with the
Grid s/w provider)
-
- IT services
- Value-added serv-
ices (consulting)
