Storage: To grasp what a grid OS does, Mario Apicella explains, “you have to think beyond the solitary machine — the natural habitat for a conventional OS — and instead consider the datacenter as your playing field.” Living off the grid OS. Apicella goes on to explain that 3Tera is developing just such an operating system. “The benefits of a grid OS are considerable, allowing you to allocate more computing power to an application in a heartbeat and with seamless effort.” The news beat: Microsoft reveals Windows Server 2008 pricing and the Hyper-V brand, the commercial name for its virtualization product. A hacker pleads guilty to creating botnets that infected hundreds of thousands of PCs. Dell revamps its PowerEdge line of servers with Intel’s new Penryn chip, released yesterday. And Northeastern University sues Google for patent infringement over distributed database technology. Video: In this installment of The week ahead with Gina Smith, she looks at Google’s Android SDK. “Developers have been on the edge of their seats … but can any technology live up to this level of hype?” she asks. Also on tap is Oracle OpenWorld, and Cringely weighs in on Facebook. Watch it here. Software Development