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, Mark Hurd
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, Business Outcome, Outsourcing, 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
AT&T joining cloud computing field
News AT&T is joining the burgeoning field of cloud computing service providers that offer networking and storage services.
Tags: Utility computing, Web services, Servers, Storage, Google Inc., Storage, Cloud Computing, Amazon.com Inc., AT&T Corp., Outage
Gartner: Internet-based e-mail to fuel cloud uptake
News The use of Internet hosted e-mail services--such as Microsoft's Hotmail and Google Mail--will fuel the business uptake of "cloud services".
Tags: Utility computing, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Gartner Inc., Environment, VP, e-mail, MSN Hotmail, Silicon.com, Internet
Can you trust your business to Google's cloud?
News Cloud computing is ever more fashionable. The recent Google Apps outage shows that online applications and services aren't perfect, but the concept is growing up.
Tags: Utility computing, grid computing, Google Inc., Cloud Computing, SLA, software, Adobe Systems Inc., strategy, Google Apps, word-processing
Amazon invests in Engine Yard's cloud computing
News The US$15 million second round of financing will help the two-year-old Engine Yard develop a cloud computing platform for the programming framework Ruby on Rails.
Tags: Business applications, Venture capital, Utility computing, Open Source, Cloud Computing, software company, Environment, Amazon.com Inc., Ruby on Rails, software
Microsoft opens up Live Mesh
News Anyone with a Windows Live ID can now sign up for the synchronization services, which lets users share data across multiple PCs.
Tags: Utility computing, Data services, Data Management, Business applications, Software, Web services, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Live, Apple Macintosh, software company
