Globus Alliance
The Globus Alliance set the standards for Grid computing, a direct predecessor to cloud computing. Grid computing fostered the next wave of the Internet and the Globus Alliance has been called the “de facto standard” for Grid computing. Grid computing enables you to effectively compress time by expanding computing space and provides seamless, transparent, secure access to IT resources such as hardware, software, scientific instruments, and services across computer grids. Globus Online is allowing scientists to do more than they ever thought possible with a cloud-based service for data movement.