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 ...

LAS VEGAS--Utility computing is more like a river than a stone. That helpful clarification comes courtesy of the main panel on the subject at the Comdex computing trade show, where participants were ...

Veritas plans to acquire Ejasent for $59 million in cash. The deal is expected to close this month. Ejasent, Mountain View, Calif., brings to Veritas its core software application, UpScale, which ...

“Utility computing” is the term most often used to describe “metered” use of computing resources, perhaps purchased from a third party. The idea behind utility computing is that you don’t need to ...

ATTENTION DATACENTER STAFFERS: Utility computing is coming, but don’t start planning your retirement just yet. In the utility computing dream, compute resources flow like electricity on demand from ...

Before utility computing can go mainstream, providers have to get to grips with a basic question: How should they calculate the charges? Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and ...

Veritas' purchase of Ejasent, which employs 21 people, is expected to be complete by the end of this month when the young company will start to be fully integrated ...

When Deluxe Laboratories acquired a marketing fulfillment house two years ago, the Hollywood, Calif. provider of media production services discovered that its new division was using outdated hardware ...

A new twist to that old adage “great minds think alike” is the concept of the “ambient idea.” Ambient ideas or themes come about when creative people are exposed to and process the same set of inputs ...

Veritas Software plans to expand its utility computing portfolio with the acquisition of software maker Ejasent for $59 million. Veritas' purchase of Ejasent, which was founded in 1999, comes after ...

The current, evolving scenario of utility field conditions and points to what to look for in rugged mobile devices to support computing requirements. The pursuit of aggressive decarbonization goals ...

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 ...