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 ...

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 ...

Hewlett-Packard next year will take a fresh approach to its utility computing initiative with a product designed to reduce the cost of running corporate computing systems. The company introduced on ...

Utility computing is defined as the technology, tools, and processes that collectively deliver, monitor, and manage IT as a service to users. Among the potential benefits of adopting a utility ...

While it is easy to dismiss utility computing as an intriguing but nascent phenomenon, it is already catching on in a variety of IT contexts. Principal avenues to commercial realization for utility ...

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 ...

Sun Microsystems is expanding a program to sell computing horsepower in a way similar to how power companies sell electricity. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

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 ...

Virtualization has been around for quite some time, but it's only within the past 2 years that the technology has really started to take off and gain in popularity. Likewise, utility computing is only ...

Industry executives respond to Nicholas G. Carr's contention that utility computing will evolve in much the same way electricity did a century ago. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green ...

Utility computing may be one of the hottest topics in the technology industry these days, but much work must be done before it will ever achieve widespread acceptance, said a panel of industry experts ...