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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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 ...

Major hardware vendors such as IBM, HP and Sun are leveraging their own computing resources to create utility computing environments that enable enterprises to rent computing power on an as-needed ...

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 ...

Now lets flash back nearly a year earlier, when Sun unveiled its N1 utility computing vision. The folks at Sun talked about what N1 is and how it's supposed to work, but they went one step ...

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 ...

The program will compete with a number of utility computing and outsourcing initiatives offered by a wide variety of companies, including IBM's Deep Computing On Demand and Sun Microsystems' Sun Grid ...

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 ...

Hewlett-Packard announced several new hardware and software products Thursday that expand the utility computing idea for servers and extend the technology to printers and PCs. In one change, HP Unix ...

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 ...