Cloud computing is converting from a market defined by different technologies into one defined by quality of service. Existing utility markets include ones for water, electricity, gas and, to a ...

Cloud computing and utility computing are evolved concepts whose time has come, yet elements have basically always been around. We can trace the timing to several things, ...

Cloud computing as a utility is going mainstream. The idea is to leverage power, storage space and fast network connection pipes to deliver computing much like power or electricity.

In the not too distant future, cloud computing will become a ‘dispersed utility’ and we will come to regard it in much the same way that we view our other core utilities such as gas, water and ...

From a technology perspective, the idea of delivering computing services from the cloud has gone mainstream. There’s also a rapidly growing business in offering cloud computing itself as a ...

The reason utility computing has stayed on the shelf for the past decade or so is that the tools available to aspiring cloud providers (originally called ASPs, or application service providers ...

From a technology perspective, the idea of delivering computing services from the cloud has gone mainstream. ... The utility of cloud computing By Bob O'Donnell August 17, 2016, 1:16.

Several other companies have a presence in utility computing, but none matches up to Amazon's scale. Verizon bought Terremark early in 2011 to move into the utility computing space.

Cloud by its nature is “on-demand” and includes attributes previously associated with utility and grid models. Grid computing is the ability to harness large collections of independent compute ...

Despite all of its promises, until recently the concept of utility computing has gained only limited acceptance in the marketplace. There have been a variety of reasons for the slow adoption of ...