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 ...

Imagine this: your ten employees are working away at their PCs, using Microsoft Excel, doing inventory control, or managing the books. But the applications they are using aren’t installed on those PCs ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Computer Associates International on Monday launched new tools designed to better manage utility computing. At a customer conference in Las Vegas, the software company detailed new products and ...

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 ...

Utility computing may be one of the hottest topics in the technology industry these days, but much work must be done before it will ever achieve widespread acceptance, said a panel of industry experts ...

The company is working on a software development kit (SDK) for its N1 software that will enable other technology providers to share information with N1-managed systems. The company hopes to complete ...

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 ...

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 ...