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 ...

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 ...

What is the difference between the computing model we use today and the evolving concept of utility computing? In a very real sense, the differences exist down to the most basic services IT delivers ...

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 ...

Hewlett-Packard has begun running an experimental service on one of its two large utility data centers (UDC) in what the company says is a step toward a broad distributed services market carried out ...

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 ...

The systems integrator is the latest in a series of industry bigwigs to talk about the utility concept, which charges customers only for the computing power they consume, ostensibly saving them money ...

Ben Horowitz, CEO of Opsware, and Darrel Thomas, chief technologist of hosting services, EDS, sat down to talk about Data Center Markup Language (DCML), a new XML-based standard designed for utility ...