That helpful clarification comes courtesy of the main panel on the subject at the Comdex computing trade show, where participants were able to agree on that analogy and the notion that utility ...

Utility computing is the latest, greatest and most economical enterprise computing model for the next decade, according to CA, HP, IBM, Sun and Veritas. Now if we could only get them to agree on a ...

Utility as grid computing, virtualization, or smart clusters: This is just one example of a specific technology designed to enable the above definitions. Other technologies that will play here include ...

If under a utility computing model this process can be compressed and, in effect, instantly available once the decision is made to proceed, procurement lifecycles cannot only be reduced but customers ...