Despite all of its promises, until recently the concept of utility computing has gained only limited acceptance in the marketplace. There have been a variety of reasons for the slow adoption of this ...

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As attention on utility computing has intensified, so too has the debate about the future of this movement, with some predicting its demise even before the market has had a chance to take shape. It is ...

IBM is upping the stakes in the race to become the dominant provider of utility computing services with a plan to build out its data centers worldwide with sophisticated software and flexible service ...

AT&T announced that ESRI will deploy AT&T's utility computing service to support the dynamic requirements of some of ESRI's newest Web-based applications, such as the Hurricane Disaster Viewer. AT&T's ...

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 ...

Automation is pivotal in optimizing energy use and improving utility services in the U.S. Residential and commercial sectors consumed around 40% of the nation's energy in 2021, as per the U.S. Energy ...

Major hardware vendors such as IBM, HP and Sun are leveraging their own computing resources to create utility computing environments that enable enterprises to rent computing power on an as-needed ...

Utility computing, the overused and continuously-redefined term that we have heard so much about during the last two years, keeps edging closer to reality. It is tempting to apply one of Zeno’s ...

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 ...

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 Thursday. In a ...

The company plans to upgrade its data centers with new management software and tools in an effort to stake out a dominant position in the software-on-demand world. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer ...