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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

The program will compete with a number of utility computing and outsourcing initiatives offered by a wide variety of companies, including IBM's Deep Computing On Demand and Sun Microsystems' Sun Grid ...

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 ...

Hewlett-Packard announced several new hardware and software products Thursday that expand the utility computing idea for servers and extend the technology to printers and PCs. In one change, HP Unix ...

Hewlett-Packard has been looking to sex up its utility computing efforts by adding a dose of Hollywood to the mix. The company introduced a new application Tuesday that incorporates technology created ...

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 ...

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 ...