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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 way companies invest in and use technology is in a state of flux, according to business pundit Nicholas Carr. His 2004 book "Does IT Matter? Information Technology and the Corrosion of Competitive ...

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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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 ...

The times they are a-changin'. Especially for cloud technology. Here's how a cloud entrepreneur puts it. "I've cut my teeth in the industry working on the physical side of cloud-based infrastructure.

Sun Microsystems Inc. and SchlumbergerSema on Wednesday will announce a partnership to give outsourcing clients the chance to pay for the computing resources they use as opposed to having to agree to ...