The company, which on Wednesday acquired Ejasent, a developer of software for virtualizing applications across servers, has just started a trial program under which it is making parts of its utility ...

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 ...

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 ...

Utility as grid computing, virtualization, or smart clusters: This is just one example of a specific technology designed to enable the above definitions. Other technologies that will play here include ...

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 ...

Digital, which had no plans to build big iron, set out to find a way to use existing equipment to increase capacity–a search that led to the development of the VAX cluster and the concept of ...

A few weeks ago, I wrote an article about what I believe will soon be a prominent model of computing: the utility data center. I featured the managed hosting company VeriCenter and its philosophy on ...

While others talk about how utility computing and a services orientation could affect IT delivery, Wachovia Bank is a living demonstration. The financial services giant, which controls assets of about ...