Despite all of its promises, until recently the concept of utility computing has gained only limited acceptance in the marketplace. There have been a variety of reasons for the slow adoption of this ...

Although industry surveys suggest that enterprises are hesitant to subscribe to on-demand computing services, most market forecasters expect demand for utility computing to grow among organizations of ...

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 ...

Hewlett-Packard has begun running an experimental service on one of its two large utility data centers (UDC) in what the company says is a step toward a broad distributed services market carried out ...

Automation is pivotal in optimizing energy use and improving utility services in the U.S. Residential and commercial sectors consumed around 40% of the nation's energy in 2021, as per the U.S. Energy ...