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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Download a FREE copy of the Cutter Consortium Executive Update “Utility Computing: Perceptions and Strategies” by Jeff Kaplan. If you paid any attention to Nicholas Carr’s infamous Harvard Business ...

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 ...