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Utility computing is "the next big thing"
News According to a recent report from Summit Strategies, utility computing is on track to be the "next big thing" for IT vendors and services companies that sell to large enterprises. Summit Strategies describes utility computing this way:
[March 5, 2003, 11:38]
Utility computing still a hard sell
Talkback What customers want to know is the difference between Utility Computing and old Time-sharing model.
[October 20, 2004, 20:30]
Utility Computing: Automating the Datacenter
White Papers HP researchers envision an IT environment that delivers computing resources as seamlessly as utility companies deliver power.
[December 14, 2007, 0:01]
Utility computing still a hard sell
Talkback One of the fundamental problems is that firms are still focused on pricing consumption and rather than establishing pricing models that are tied to the full business value that customers get from utility computing solutions.
[October 26, 2004, 16:09]
Utility computing still a hard sell
News That was the gist of conversation at the SoftSummit conference, as software executives discussed the promise and reality of utility computing and subscription pricing. Utility computing, a tech buzzword, essentially promises that a company will...
[October 20, 2004, 8:50]
Utility computing is the future, says Schwartz
News Sun's not alone in having a vision of utility computing. Sun Microsystems on Tuesday took what it says are early steps toward a future in which computing power is sold as a commodity like electricity.
[September 22, 2004, 8:50]
Firms tiptoe into utility computing
News Potential customers for utility computing are wary of sharing information technology resources and worry about the financial viability of service providers, research firm IDC said on Thursday. In a survey of 34 corporations, IDC found that IBM and...
[February 14, 2003, 8:20]
Sun adds desktops to utility computing plans
News Sun Microsystems will add a new element to its utility computing plan, letting customers rent out access to Sun Ray thin clients for desktop computing tasks. Sun foresees a time when most people tap into a global pool of computing power rather than...
[November 18, 2004, 8:25]
Characterizing Application Workloads on CPU Utilization for Utility Computing
White Papers Utility Computing has recently become a wide-spread paradigm for data center operators to adapt to the changing business environment. Utility Computing offers two advantages: (1) lowering customer costs related to hardware, software license...
[November 4, 2004, 2:00]
IBM branches out with utility computing
News IBM announced on Thursday that it has signed up a customer for a hosted design software service, a sign that utility computing is branching out into specialised applications. Lam Research, a maker of semiconductor fabrication gear, will use...
[June 18, 2004, 10:10]
Dell not switching on utility computing
News Dell Computer will pass on so-called utility computing for now, one of the company's top executives said on Wednesday. Although the concepts behind utility, or on-demand, computing are appealing, the technology for assembling disparate servers and...
[May 29, 2003, 7:41]
IT leaders baffled by utility computing
News Advocates of utility computing have failed to get their message across to many senior IT staff, according to research published this week. IXEurope, a datacentre services company, surveyed 114 of its existing customers and found that 16 percent...
[August 12, 2004, 16:00]
Veritas invests in utility computing
News Veritas Software plans to build out its utility-computing portfolio with the acquisition of software maker Ejasent for $59m (£32.4m). Veritas' purchase of the Ejasent, which was founded in 1999, follows the acquisition last year of two other...
[January 7, 2004, 14:30]
How Multicore Processing and 64-Bit Operating Systems Enhance a Utility Computing Environment
White Papers As organizations wrestle with how to better align IT with their business and drive economies of scale into their IT environments, increasingly utility computing is an option to consider. As the concept of a pool of resources develops, technologies...
[February 29, 2008, 0:02]
HP updates utility computing line
News Hewlett-Packard next year will take a fresh approach to its utility computing initiative with a product designed to reduce the cost of running corporate computing systems. Although UDC was one of the more notable early examples of the concept of...
[November 30, 2004, 7:55]
Shrek adds weight to HP utility computing
News HP has been looking to sex up its utility computing efforts by adding a dose of Hollywood to the mix. They're each working with HP to offer customers a flexible payment scheme that complements HP's utility computing model, the company said.
[November 30, 2005, 9:45]
Implementing a Utility Computing Environment Based on Virtualization
White Papers Creating a virtualized, utility computing environment is by no means a trivial undertaking. Many enterprises are saddled with cumbersome, yet highly underutilized, IT infrastructures that hamper their ability to adapt to changing business conditions.
[November 8, 2006, 0:00]
Service Oriented Architectures and Grid Computing - A New Generation of Applications for Grid Enabled Data Centers and Public Utility Computing
White Papers The authors argue in this paper that a combination of service oriented architecture style systems design, implemented within cluster- and grid infrastructures, and controlled by dynamic multi-agent systems, will enable new types of applications...
[March 21, 2007, 0:00]
ITSM and the Utility Computing Puzzle
White Papers In this fashion, the parallelism between the nature of ITSM and the core of what Utility Computing is and what it is trying to achieve is readily apparent. It can be derived that ITSM, which is founded in ITIL industry accepted best practices, is...
[November 23, 2004, 2:00]
Virtualisation will power utility computing
News IBM will provide essential plumbing for its utility computing vision later this year when it introduces a collection of technology that joins management software to hardware that comes with the company's Power5 processor.
[April 29, 2004, 16:40]
