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Grid technologies have matured over the last few years. This level of maturity is especially true in the field of scientific computing in which Grids have become the main infrastructure for scientific problem solving. Due to its success, the use of Grid technology rapidly finds its introduction into other fields. One of such fields is enterprise computing in which Grids are seen as a new architecture for data centers. In this paper, we describe the vision of enterprise Grids, current scientific achievements that will leverage this vision, and challenges ahead.

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This work has been partially funded by the European S4ALL project, the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science (MEC) under grant TIN2004-07474-C02-01, the Madrid Regional Research Council (CAM) under grant 0505/TIC/000285, and the Spanish Ministry of Industry (MITyC) under grant FIT-340000-2006-138.

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Jiménez-Peris, R., Patiño-Martínez, M. & Kemme, B. Enterprise Grids: Challenges Ahead. J Grid Computing 5, 283–294 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10723-007-9071-y

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