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 ...

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 ...

Veritas' purchase of Ejasent, which employs 21 people, is expected to be complete by the end of this month when the young company will start to be fully integrated ...

Winter says the biggest risk from utility computing services is that the company would face a significant expense if it needed to switch providers, revert back to a co-location arrangement or bring ...

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 ...