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 ...

LAS VEGAS--Utility computing is more like a river than a stone. That helpful clarification comes courtesy of the main panel on the subject at the Comdex computing trade show, where participants were ...

A new twist to that old adage “great minds think alike” is the concept of the “ambient idea.” Ambient ideas or themes come about when creative people are exposed to and process the same set of inputs ...

Potential customers for utility computing are wary of sharing information technology resources and worry about the financial viability of service providers, research firm IDC said Thursday. In a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bill Mooz – Sun: We view utility computing from four aspects. There is a technology aspect, a financial model and business aspect and, very importantly, a change management aspect. The processes you ...

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 ...

The notion that enterprises can tap into a vast network of computers to handle their IT tasks isn’t one of the newest ideas around, but right now it’s one of the hottest. It’s called utility computing ...

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 Web Infrastructure Orchestration bundle will let IBM's Tivoli management software govern how the company's DB2 database software and WebSphere e-commerce and Web site software run on Big Blue's ...