The Grid-Cloud Connection (Pt. II): Spare the Hype
While the basic tools to build cloud or utility infrastructures exist within Platform Computing current portfolio, CEO Songnian Zhou more integration work still is needed to create full-fledged cloud infrastructures. Platform’s Enterprise Grid Orchestrator (EGO) abstracts applications from resources and orchestrates delivery based on policy, and its VM Orchestrator (VMO) orchestrates workloads that can be hosted in virtual environments. VMO sits next to Platform’s LSF and Symphony products in the architecture, and all three are underpinned by EGO.
