Utility Computing
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Economic crisis to boost utility compute market
News Several utility computing service providers are expecting the current economic crisis to catalyze Asian companies to adopt their services amid shrinking budgets.
Tags: Utility computing, Asia, managed hosting, Savvis Communications, director of sales, Horst Iblher, Hardware, T-Systems, information technology, RFP
Governments must lay foundation for SaaS
News Governments should build out the national infrastructures to support large scale utility computing, to enjoy economies of scale, says Salesforce.com executive.
Tags: Utility computing, Local Government, software company, Government, social networking, software, network, software-as-a-service, U.S., talent
S'pore SaaS incubator adds three partners
News Singapore Computer Systems, GigaSpaces and Haley have joined AxSaaS, Singapore's first SaaS incubation center, a week after the facility's launch.
Tags: Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Utility computing, Hewlett-Packard Co., Start-up, software company, phone, software, network, managing director, vice president
Networks vs. servers: The truce has ended
Techguide Recent activity by HP and Cisco suggests the truce between networking vendors and server vendors, has ended. See why, and how it could benefit IT.
Tags: Servers, Virtualization, Data Management, Data centers, Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Corp., HP ProCurve, Cisco Systems Inc., Jason Hiner, Server
Sun pushes its green IT agenda
News The server maker claims companies are still split between altruism and cost saving when it comes to energy-efficient computing.
Tags: Green IT, Servers, Green IT, Sun Microsystems Inc., intellectual property, Thin Client, energy efficiency, food, utility computing, revenue
What will it take for cloud to fly?
Blogs When planes run through them? In New York, it seems, the clouds rain buckets the very day you book a cruise tour down th...
IBM floats vision of cloud's future
Insight newsmaker The head of IBM's cloud-computing strategy talks about why the company wanted to develop the technology, and where he plans to take it.
Tags: Cloud computing, Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Utility computing, R&D, IBM Corp., Customer Center, oil & gas, grid computing, Cloud computing, Software-as-a-service (SaaS)
Firms to wring business outcomes in outsourcing
News Companies in Asia will focus more on business outcomes when picking service providers this year, but be open to greater contract flexibility, says analyst.
Tags: IT outsourcing, Outsourcing, Business, Outsourcing, Business Outcome, Information And Communication Technology, Sales, Environment, Frost & Sullivan, unified communications
How Microsoft plans to make its mark in CRM
Insight newsmaker The software giant is well placed to take the lead in the CRM arena with its on-demand and packaged software, not to mention a US$1 billion annual infrastructure budget, says exec Brad Wilson.
Tags: Customer resource management (CRM), Strategy, Utility computing, Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Microsoft Corp., CRM, e-Service, On-demand, Sales, TCO
Dell loses 'cloud computing' trademark bid
News The company has been given a further six months to convince the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to grant a patent on the term "cloud computing".
Tags: Patents, Utility computing, Officer, Cloud Computing, computer hardware, Environment, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, RFC, blog, data center
Dell unlikely to get trademark for 'cloud computing'
News The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office reverses course on its preliminary decision to allow Dell to trademark the term "cloud computing".
Tags: Patents, Utility computing, Cloud Computing, intellectual property, software, software-as-a-service, data center, Dell Computer Corp., consulting company, enterprise software
Gartner: Web 2.0 set to transform business
News Analyst predicts technologies such as SaaS and mashups, will have a change-inducing impact on business within two years, despite current user disillusionment.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web services, Utility computing, Internet, Technology, Cloud Computing, Gartner Inc., 3D, social networking, printer
IBM splashes out on cloud-computing center
News The company announced the building of the US$360 million center shortly after Intel, HP and Yahoo also revealed plans to cooperate on cloud computing.
Tags: Utility computing, Web sites, Web services, Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Corp., Yahoo! Inc., Cloud Computing, software, energy efficiency, Beijing
HP, Intel, Yahoo join forces on cloud computing research
News A new "test bed" project will give the three companies, as well as partnering researchers, access to top-notch hardware for exploring the future of the hot server-outsourcing technology.
Tags: Web services, Utility computing, Servers, Storage, Business applications, Software, Hewlett-Packard Co., Intel Corp., Google Inc., India
S'pore wants 'digital abundance' to be reality
News Country needs its ecosystem to support bid to enable "unlimited bandwidth" and "supercomputing-on-demand", says industry regulator.
Tags: Utility computing, grid computing, Supercomputing, Digital media, Next-generation technology/networks, SMB, Abundance, Google Inc., Singapore, Cloud Computing
