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 ...

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” 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

LAS VEGAS — Integrating software from two recent acquitions into its product line, Veritas Software Corp. announced yesterday that it will be introducing a combined suite intended to allow ...

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 ...

CommandCentral is Veritas' service portal for integrating and displaying information on capacity, usage, cost and service levels for online storage, data protection, servers and clusters. The portal ...

Winter says the biggest risk from utility computing services is that the company would face a significant expense if it needed to switch providers, revert back to a co-location arrangement or bring ...