Utility Computing
192 Stories

Economic crisis to boost utility compute market

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.

Tuesday, December 02 2008 07:22 PM

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

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.

Wednesday, September 17 2008 06:26 PM

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

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.

Tuesday, September 16 2008 07:14 PM

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.

Monday, March 23 2009 06:27 PM

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.

Tuesday, April 29 2008 05:32 PM

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...

Friday, March 20 2009 05:59 AM


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.

Saturday, April 04 2009 08:36 PM

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.

Tuesday, March 17 2009 06:53 PM

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.

Sunday, November 30 2008 02:45 PM

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".

Monday, August 18 2008 10:58 PM

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.

Tuesday, August 05 2008 05:22 PM

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".

Thursday, July 03 2008 10:58 PM

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.

Monday, July 14 2008 01:02 AM

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.

Tuesday, July 15 2008 08:13 AM

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.

Wednesday, July 16 2008 10:46 PM

Tags: Utility computing, Data services, Data Management, Business applications, Software, Web services, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Live, Apple Macintosh, software company


Jump to 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ...

 
Virtualize your way to cost savings
Build an infrastructure that is flexible, scalable, and economical, as you strive to become a truly agile business.

Red Hat Outlines Its Virtualization Strategy and Roadmap for 2009
» Watch the video




Configuring VoIP in Twinkle

Open Source

If you need a reliable and capable SIP softphone for Linux, Vincent Danen suggests using the feature-rich Twinkle to configure its use.


Read more »



Are Telcos the New Drivers of the Outsourcing Industry?

Blog thumbnail

The recent TPI Index from TPI highlighted an interesting trend where 'a few very large Telco-to-Telco contracts - instances where one telecommunications carrier outsources its network operations requirements to another..... by Michael Rehkopf

Read more »

Tags

  1. business applications
  2. cloud computing
  3. data center
  4. dell computer corp.
  5. google inc.
  6. hewlett - packard co.
  7. information technology
  8. internet
  9. network
  10. salesforce.com inc.
  11. security
  12. servers
  13. software
  14. software - as - a - service
  15. storage
  16. strategy
  17. web
  18. web services