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HP Pulls The Plug On Utility Data Centre
News The company has decided to discontinue its Utility Data Centre package, designed to let administrators pool servers and storage systems so that tasks can be shifted as demands shift. Hewlett-Packard is getting rid of one of its high-profile utility...
[September 28, 2004, 11:05]
Sun Wants To Open Up N1
News Sun Microsystems is working on a mechanism to connect its N1 utility computing software to existing systems management setups, in an early attempt to manage data centre gear from other providers. Creating a link between established systems...
[December 23, 2003, 11:10]
HP Updates Utility Computing Line
News The new tool is HP's attempt to recast its discontinued Utility Data Centre product, designed to let administrators pool servers and storage systems so that tasks could be shifted as demands shifted. HP has moved some of the people who were working...
[November 30, 2004, 7:55]
HP Takes Open-source Route Into Software Market
News Instead, it chose to focus on its OpenView management software business and its Utility Data Centre software. HP discontinued Utility Data Centre, which aims to automatically manage computing resources efficiently, earlier this year.
[November 12, 2004, 8:05]
Buffalo TeraStation NAS (1TB) review
Reviews TeraStations now ship with Tanagra's Memeo Windows software for backing up your PC (the TeraStation has its own backup utility for backing itself up to external USB disks). Buffalo provides a utility -- the TeraNavigator Client Utility -- that you...
[June 9, 2005, 9:40]
OASIS Enlarges Specification Tent
News Standards body OASIS will take on development of an existing utility computing specification for automating data centre operations. OASIS (the Organisation for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) on Monday said it will create a...
[August 31, 2004, 10:00]
BEA And Veritas Ally To Exploit Utility Model
News IBM, Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard all have utility computing initiatives designed to make data centre operations more efficient and cost-effective. BEA Systems and Veritas Software have penned a partnership designed to further align the two...
[April 13, 2004, 11:30]
Sun Signs Up Utility Partner
News Sun's utility computing strategy revolves around its N1 data centre management software, which can pool server and storage processing power from several machines and then use the networked hardware and software to best match fluctuations in the...
[October 1, 2003, 10:05]
Shrek Adds Weight To HP Utility Computing
News Sun announced on Tuesday that InTechnology, a UK partner, will offer two services atop Sun's future Grid Storage Utility: Sun Grid Remote Backup and Restore Service (RBR), which lets customers back up data, and Sun Grid Remote File Vault (RFV...
[November 30, 2005, 9:45]
Veritas Invests In Utility Computing
News Veritas' strategy of snapping up smaller niche providers of data centre management mirrors that of other utility computing companies. Veritas Software plans to build out its utility-computing portfolio with the acquisition of software maker Ejasent...
[January 7, 2004, 14:30]
IBM Promises Rewards From Utility Vision
News HP, meanwhile, relied on TerraSpring software for its Utility Data Centre product, and Veritas acquired Jareva Technologies. IBM will release software at the end of September to let customers start sampling some of the promised benefits of the...
[September 2, 2003, 9:10]
Efficient Servers May Get 'Energy Star'
News Hot processors, power supplies, memory chips and other components raise utility bills, strain electricity distribution systems and overtax air-conditioning. The EPA's discussions with computing-equipment makers and data centre operators has shown...
[January 2, 2007, 7:41]
If You Can't Trust FBI-issue Software...
News Last December, the National Infrastructure Protection Centre -- a joint effort between the FBI and the US Department of Justice -- released a utility for Solaris and Linux computers that it claims will detect and eliminate the software agents...
[February 14, 2000, 10:29]
HP's Tycoon Bids Up Utility Computing
News HP cancelled a product called Utility Data Centre for lack of customer interest, though some of its ideas carry on in blade servers, management software and other technology. HP is testing a new program called SASU -- Shared Application Server...
[November 11, 2004, 17:10]
Utility Computing Is "the Next Big Thing"
News HP also announced its Utility Data Center architecture, and Sun has its own N1 data centre virtualisation plans. According to a recent report from Summit Strategies, utility computing is on track to be the "next big thing" for IT vendors and...
[March 5, 2003, 11:38]
Opsware Seeks Better Compatibility
News Opsware is one of dozens of companies seeking to realise an industry vision of utility computing, in which businesses pay for computing resources based on usage, as they would purchase gas or electricity.
[July 19, 2004, 9:05]
Adobe Takes To GridIron
News The "utility" moniker derives from the payment mechanism that could be used for such services -- a company could pay to use a third-party data centre the way it pays for electricity, water and other utilities.
[February 3, 2004, 8:55]
Ozzie Shines Light On Microsoft's Cloud Services
News Next he referred to Cloud Infrastructure Services, the software tuned for utility computing, where outsiders can purchase computing resources as needed. Cloud Infrastructure Services is "a utility computing fabric on which online services run.
[July 27, 2007, 17:21]
Veritas Helps Firms Track Data
News Glenn Groshank, Veritas director of product marketing, said the software allows an organisation to set up a kind of internal utility, in which business units are "charged" for the amount of backup and recovery service the IT department provides.
[November 4, 2003, 12:25]
IBM's On-demand Push Begins To Think
News But in the shorter term, utility computing often relates to the ability to fire up a server's unused processors as needed or tap into an IBM data centre to accommodate spikes in demand -- efforts that the new acquisition will likely aid IBM in...
[May 14, 2003, 14:26]
