Commercial Grids Sample Clauses

Commercial Grids. While traditional Grids assume mutual cooperation between organizations, a commercially viable Grid needs to be governed to replace the assumption of cooperation. In view of the foregoing, SLAs have been proposed as the ideal tool for governing Grid service provisioning and consumption, guaranteeing QoS, and establishing consumer confidence (Xxxxxxxx and XxXxx, 2005). The provision of services in a commercial Grid always implies a service consumerís consumption of a service that is purchased from a provider. In such a Grid computing environment, resource management systems need to provide mechanisms and tools that allow service consumers and service providers to specify their requirements and achieve their goals. The commercial Grid assumption is that there is a market where players such as service consumers and service providers participate with the aim to meet requirements and make profit (Xxxx et al., 2003). The use of SLAs can allow the provider to reduce costs and allow them to make more efficient use of their services by being able to plan ahead and, if necessary, commission or decommission new resources when there are spikes or troughs in demand. SLAs help consumers to evaluate their contracted service.