Increasing Dynamic Capabilities through Virtualized Grid-in-Cloud Solutions

Cloud computing is becoming increasingly popular among enterprises since it is an in-expensive alternative to source IT resources. In this regard, a viable way to increase dynamic capabilities is to use Clouds as platform to implement Grid environments which allow the parallelization of tasks in virtualized Cloud environments. Thus, being able to combine the two paradigms and being able to assess which task can be deployed based in which compute environment can be a competitive advantage for enterprises. Therefore, our tripartite research question we are aiming at in this research in progress stream is: 1) How can a Grid-in-a-Cloud solution be realized, 2) what are the technical obstacles, and 3) for which tasks is an economically meaningful use possible? We provide first preliminary answers which we were able to draw from our design science research approach developing a Grid-in-a-Cloud solution which we compare with a physical Grid solution