Testimonials
I'm very excited by Univa providing continuity and ongoing support for Grid Engine. This is clearly a win-win-win situation: GE's thousands of users now have access to enterprise-class support at Univa, Univa customers benefit from the extended capabilities now available for fully optimizing data center efficiency; and the GE open source community can rest assured that robust development will continue thanks to Univa's commitment to the project.
This move propels Univa into a lead position in both the data center optimization and workload management spaces. We selected Grid Engine as a core part of Univa's software stack almost five years ago due to its market leading feature set, large user community and vibrant open source community, all backed by a fantastic engineering team. Now that key members of the Grid Engine team are part of Univa,it seems a no-brainer for GE users to go with Univa for ongoing GE technology and services, as well as the broader data center optimization stack Univa has built around GE.
Combining the Grid Engine and Univa technology offerings was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that the new Univa EMEA team and I just couldn't miss. Now we'll be able to interact with and serve users worldwide investigating and understanding their data center optimization needs and providing the most innovative and enterprise-strength solutions to meet those needs.
Hearing that the core Grid Engine development team has landed in a new and supportive home is extremely exciting. Grid Engine's continued success depends heavily on the technology and support options available to the user community. Today's announcement is a huge boost to the community and also expands the choices available to those who need commercially licensed products. We are particularly excited that Univa plans to offer support options for the open source product. This satisfies a need we have long seen in our own market and is something that BioTeam will use quite heavily.
The impact of using poorly optimized technology can be measured in revenue or lost profits. Since the complexity of the data center has grown in a non-linear manner, it no longer makes sense to manually manage processes. Rather, the correct answer is to leverage policy; that is, to automate the correct lower-level events to occur in the right sequence, at the right time, at the right frequency, and only when necessary. Before one can automate there are many elements that must be integrated. We believe Univa's data center optimization approach can readily help companies achieve rapid ROI.
The integration of these key Grid Engine resources into Univa's workforce will further strengthen their already unique data center optimization offerings. Consider an optimization solution as a hierarchical pyramid of capabilities, where each level must be built to support the weight of the levels above it. With the acquisition of this solid Grid Engine foundation, the Univa solution is architected to bear the full weight of the optimization pyramid from the bottom level to the top, which incorporates the complex dynamics of the customer business itself.
