As technology suppliers ease systems management, spending for products that deal in utility computing will surge in coming years, analyst firm IDC is predicting. Spending of $1 billion in 2003 is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Defense Department is adopting a utility model that lets DOD pay for computing services as it needs them instead of owning all its information technology hardware. The purpose of the new policy is ...

Ben Horowitz, CEO of Opsware, and Darrel Thomas, chief technologist of hosting services, EDS, sat down to talk about Data Center Markup Language (DCML), a new XML-based standard designed for utility ...

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AT&T Corp. will launch a managed utility computing service late this year based on hardware from Sun Microsystems Inc. as one of several improvements to its hosting service, AT&T executives revealed ...

IBM Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. have launched on-demand computing services where customers submit work to the companies and pay by the computer cycle used. IBM Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. each ...

IBM Tuesday said it is investing heavily to certify thousands of new solution providers on IBM software products to make the utility computing vision a reality. Furthermore, the computer giant is ...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has partnered with three companies for a new quantum computing program aimed at developing utility-scale systems. The US R&D agency also selected ...

PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--PsiQuantum today announced that it was awarded a contract with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to continue work on the Underexplored Systems ...