Digipede Technologies is a provider of grid computing solutions for the Microsoft .NET Framework that is easier to buy, install, learn and use than other solutions and provides the quickest and most intuitive way to virtualize and distribute applications.

The Digipede Network is a robust set of services on which grid-aware applications can run, without worrying about the specific machine or OS version on which they run. Those services allow the application to take advantage of hundreds or thousands of machines, without managing all the plumbing required to deploy the application across all those resources. In other words, the Digipede Network allows you to virtualize applications just as other tools allow you to virtualize your hardware and operating system.

When adapted to use the Digipede Network, an application can transparently run on as few as one core or as many as thousands of cores. This means that the CPUs themselves have been “virtualized” away from the developer and administrators.

Without technologies like Digipede, developers are forced to employ different software architectures depending on the resources their applications will need and how they will be deployed.  The Digipede Network can apply the appropriate amount of computing resources to any particular application: a lightly used application may only get a single core every once in a while. A heavier application may run across 16 cores on one machine. Very compute intensive applications can run on hundreds or thousands of cores simultaneously across a grid.

Best of all, developers are not learning and using different architectures for the different types of applications, and the network administrators aren’t administering their hardware differently for different applications.

Digipede’s innovative alternative to current grid technologies helps organizations achieve the benefits of application virtualization and distributed computing.

SYS-CON’s Virtualization Journal’s “Readers’ Choice Awards”
SYS-CON's Virtualization Journal announced today its first annual Virtualization Readers' Choice Awards. SYS-CON's Readers' Choice Awards, also known as the "Oscars of the Software Industry" has been one of the most prestigious industry award programs for more than a decade. This year's virtualization awards will be given in 17 categories and award-winning products and services will be selected by Virtualization Journal readers.

Virtualization takes the cost and complexity out of IT, and can even help us reduce the CO2 footprint. IDC has stated that the virtualization services market alone is going to reach $11.7 billion by 2011 and in general this technology, which has been around for a good number of years, seems suddenly to be on everyone's mind.

In short, Virtualization is fast becoming a key requirement for every server in the data center, enabling increased workloads in server consolidation projects, efficient software development and testing, resource management for dynamic data centers, application re-hosting and compatibility, and high-availability partitions.

The tipping point, though - as anticipated by industry experts already back in 2005 - seems to be coming in 2008.

2008 will be the year of Virtualization with many companies offering their products and services, including: 3 Leaf, Acronis, Agilysys, Akorri, AMD, APC, Appistry, AppStream, Attune Systems, Avanade, BEA Systems, Blue Lane, Brocade, CA, Cassatt, Certeon, CiRBA, Citrix, ClearCube, Coraid, Crosswalk, DataDirect, DataSynapse, Digipede Technologies, Double-Take Software, Dynamic Network Factory, Ecora Software, Egenera, Embotics, EMC, Enigmatic, Enomaly, EqualLogic, Evault, eXludus Technologies, F5Networks, FalconStor, FastScale Technology, Fortisphere, GlobalFluency, Grid Dynamics, Hitachi, HP, IBM, InovaWave, Intel, KACE, Kidaro, Layeredtech, LeftHand Networks, Leostream, Mainline, ManageIQ, Marathon Technologies, Mellanox Technologies, Microsoft, Mid-Atlantic Computers, Mindbridge Software, Ncomputing, NeoPath Networks, Neoware, Network Appliance, Neverfail, Novell, Opalis Software, OPNET Technologies, Opsware / HP, Oracle, Panologic, Parallels, PlateSpin, Platform Computing, PolyServe, Provision Networks, Raxco Software, Red Hat, Reflex Security, rPath, Sagent Solutions, SAP, Scalent Systems, ScienceLogic, Seanodes, Splunk, Stoneware, StorageNetworking.org, Supermicro Computer, Surgient, SWsoft, Symantec, Tangosol, Thinstall, Tideway Systems, TOA Solutions, TRANGO Virtual Processors, Trigence, United Devices, VeeAm Software, Virtual Iron, VirtualLogix, Virtugo Software, Vizioncore, VMLogix, vmSight, VMware, vThere – Sentillion, Wyse Technology, XDS, XenSource, Xsigo Systems, and ZenithOptimedia.