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 ...

As technology suppliers ease systems management, spending for products that deal in utility computing will surge in coming years, analyst firm IDC is predicting. Spending of $1 billion in 2003 is ...

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 ...

How does it make sense to buy computing on a utility basis? Lately there's been a lot of talk about utility computing, a model designed to deliver computing systems and services, as well as ...

In this episode of eSpeaks, Jennifer Margles, Director of Product Management at BMC Software, discusses the transition from traditional job scheduling to the era of the autonomous enterprise. eSpeaks’ ...

The Defense Department is adopting a utility model that lets DOD pay for computing services as it needs them instead of owning all its information technology hardware. The purpose of the new policy is ...

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 ...

The Hosting System, developed by hosting provider Mosso, brings a new approach to utility computing by offering designers and developers the first easy-to-use, enterprise-strength web hosting utility ...