Tapping into computing resources on an as-needed basis has plenty of benefits for enterprises -- but success depends on maturity of foundation technologies Tapping into compute resources with a ...

A few weeks ago, I wrote an article about what I believe will soon be a prominent model of computing: the utility data center. I featured the managed hosting company VeriCenter and its philosophy on ...

For years, vendors and analysts have foretold a new era when computing would be sold and consumed as a commodity. Are we any closer? Paradigm shifts were easier before the bubble burst. Serious change ...

To me it is obvious and inevitable that "utility computing" is the future direction of IT. The provision of computing facilities will become a service in parallel with the development last century of ...

The company, which on Wednesday acquired Ejasent, a developer of software for virtualizing applications across servers, has just started a trial program under which it is making parts of its utility ...

In football, an audible is a quarterback’s opportunity to change his strategy after seeing the defense line up on the field. A slew of vendors – advocates of so-called utility computing – are ...

Utility computing is defined as the technology, tools, and processes that collectively deliver, monitor, and manage IT as a service to users. Among the potential benefits of adopting a utility ...

How does it make sense to buy computing on a utility basis? Lately there's been a lot of talk about utility computing, a model designed to deliver computing systems and services, as well as ...

Utility computing may be one of the hottest topics in the technology industry these days, but much work must be done before it will ever achieve widespread acceptance, said a panel of industry experts ...

"We're announcing that we're taking the capabilities of HP's Utility Data Center and offering them in modules that are low cost and easy to deploy," says Ann Livermore, executive vice president of ...

The current, evolving scenario of utility field conditions and points to what to look for in rugged mobile devices to support computing requirements. The pursuit of aggressive decarbonization goals ...