Although industry surveys suggest that enterprises are hesitant to subscribe to on-demand computing services, most market forecasters expect demand for utility computing to grow among organizations of ...

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But while vendors and integrators have long touted the virtues of utility computing, CIOs and end-user companies have taken a cautious approach to a full-scale IT utility. Although some have rolled ...

AT&T Corp. will launch a managed utility computing service late this year based on hardware from Sun Microsystems Inc. as one of several improvements to its hosting service, AT&T executives revealed ...

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 ...

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 ...

Utility as grid computing, virtualization, or smart clusters: This is just one example of a specific technology designed to enable the above definitions. Other technologies that will play here include ...

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Now lets flash back nearly a year earlier, when Sun unveiled its N1 utility computing vision. The folks at Sun talked about what N1 is and how it's supposed to work, but they went one step ...

Utility computing is the latest, greatest and most economical enterprise computing model for the next decade, according to CA, HP, IBM, Sun and Veritas. Now if we could only get them to agree on a ...

Utility, or on-demand, computing is the idea of delivering applications, storage or processing power on a pay-per-use basis, much like electricity or telephone service is delivered today. It does this ...

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 ...