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 ...

The current, evolving scenario of utility field conditions and points to what to look for in rugged mobile devices to support computing requirements. The pursuit of aggressive decarbonization goals ...

“Utility computing” is the term most often used to describe “metered” use of computing resources, perhaps purchased from a third party. The idea behind utility computing is that you don’t need to ...

Veritas plans to acquire Ejasent for $59 million in cash. The deal is expected to close this month. Ejasent, Mountain View, Calif., brings to Veritas its core software application, UpScale, which ...

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 ...

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 ...

CommandCentral is Veritas' service portal for integrating and displaying information on capacity, usage, cost and service levels for online storage, data protection, servers and clusters. The portal ...

ATTENTION DATACENTER STAFFERS: Utility computing is coming, but don’t start planning your retirement just yet. In the utility computing dream, compute resources flow like electricity on demand from ...

This is the second of a series of newsletters based on a Server Computing 2004 presentation I gave at CD Expo’s Enterprise IT Week in Las Vegas last month. One of the trends in server computing is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...