Utility Computing

Source: newsroom.cisco.com --- 2 days ago
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, and MADRID, Spain - August 27, 2008 - Cisco today announced that Terremark Worldwide Inc., a leading global provider of managed IT infrastructure services, has launched its InfinistructureTM Utility-Computing platform in Europe with Cisco® virtualization technology deployed on a Cisco Internet Protocol Next-Generation Network architecture. Terremark has just completed the deployment of the new platform in its facilities in Madrid and Amsterdam, which follows the ... ...

Source: mashable.com --- 54 days ago
There have been several discussions about whether FriendFeed will kill Twitter or Twitter will kill itself or even some new application will kill both of them. Then there was the recent announcement of Gnip, a platform that provides a protocol bridge for data producers and data consumers. In layman’s terms Gnip is a platform on [...] ...

Source: www.prnewswire.com --- 24 days ago
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Source: www.dzone.com --- 54 days ago
I’ve taken up an interest in Erlang again lately, mostly because I’m building bigger distributed software than I used to. One has to evolve. If you watch closely, the frontrunners in the Computing industry are thinking the same thing. People, companies — anything — that doesn’t evolve and doesn’t select the technology that is best suited to survive while evolving will dissapear from mainstream sooner or later. Life is evolution. You grow or you die. Either you remain delusional or you deal with it. ...

Source: www.geekzone.co.nz --- 23 days ago
AT&T Computing platform and global IP network delivers 'Pay-For-Use' service capabilities to businesses. ...

Source: www.data-storage-today.com --- 7 days ago
Improvements to Web infrastructure have allowed cloud Computing to prosper. Now firms can run applications online, allowing their employees to be far more flexible. Whenever a Computing expert makes a diagram of an IT system, it's become standard practice to draw a picture of a big, fluffy cloud to represent the Internet. Which is how the term "cloud Computing" came about. The phrase is used to describe the process whereby elements of a company's computer needs -- software applications, processing power or data storage -- are provided via the Internet as a service, rather than through an in-house IT system: It's about Computing as a Utility. For example, instead of a piece of software being managed by your own staff, sitting on your own servers held on your premises, it is accessed through a web browser, with the actual data stored somewhere else in the world. You may well have come across cloud Computing and its various subgroups under other headings: Utility Computing, software-as-a-service, application service providers. What is common to all is the way that they challenge the traditional boundaries of an IT department. It is irrelevant where the hardware or software that supports the service actually is: it's just somewhere in the cloud, and that could as easily be a data center in Luton or a server in Hawaii. Until recently, the cloud Computing market has mostly been left to niche suppliers, but increasingly giants such as Mi ...

Source: www.it-analysis.com --- 29 days ago
Carrenza Launches Utility Computing Service Bringing Benefits of Virtualised Data Centre to Enterpr Published by: Rainier PR Date: 31st July, 2008 Carrenza, a leading UK business IT services group, has launched its new Utility Computing Service (UCS). This solution not only supplies an enterprise level hosting platform, it is a truly scalable and flexible solution. Providing like for like services, this solution enables companies that require significant Computing resources to cut their data centre power usage by over 60% per cent and their carbon footprint by up to 50%. Approximately 23 per cent of the IT industry's global carbon dioxide emissions are generated by the power needed to run and cool servers in data centres (Source: Gartner, October 2007). Carrenza's UCS has been designed to help businesses reduce their environmental impact by making more efficient use of virtual servers. Using UCS, four or more virtual servers can use the same hardware footprint as one traditional server. This allows the reduction of much of the switching and network infrastructure necessitated by duplicate networks running side-by-side in Co-location. Carrenza's UCS utilises virtual technology to offer a truly scalable enterprise hosting solution. It uses dedicated networked virtual servers to provide businesses with the servers, service levels and resources they require to power their organisation without them needing to buy or manage a hardware ...

Source: tnerd.com --- 31 days ago
Hyderabad has seen quite a few Barcamps happening at frequent intervals in the recent past. The next Barcamp is 7th in the series. This one is based on Cloud Computing, Utility Computing, SaaS and PaaS. Barcamp is a gathering where technology enthusiasts gather to present, share their views and learn from each other. So it [...] ...

Source: www.computerwire.com --- 21 days ago
AT&T has introduced a next-generation Utility Computing service to provide managed networking, security and storage services for business customers. The announcement is part of its $1bn global network investment planned for 2008. ...

Source: mycoolwebhosting.com --- 7 days ago
Behind the Cloud: Computing as a UtilityNewsFactor Network, CA - 32 minutes agoImprovements to Web infrastructure have allowed cloud Computing to prosper. Now firms can run applications online, allowing their employees to be far more ... ...

Source: www.thehostingnews.com --- 2 days ago
Miami, Florida - ( The Hosting News ) - August 27, 2008 - Integrated Tier-1 Internet exchange and managed IT infrastructure solutions provider, Terremark, has completed deployment of the Infinistructure Utility-Computing platform at its facilities in Madrid and Amsterdam. Manuel D. Medina, Chairman and CEO of Terremark Worldwide, Inc. explained, ''Through our industry-leading Infinistructure Utility platform, we are able to deliver world-class IT infrastructure services that are scalable to their needs. Based on Infinistructure's success in the United States, we anticipate that deploying the Infinistructure platform in Madrid and Amsterdam will continue to spur strong demand for our managed services from our current European customers and prospects.'' The platform is anticipated to benefit Terremark's European and American customers and has been met with high demand from current customers and prospects. Infinistructure's enterprise-class server and storage infrastructure combines Terremark's proprietary service-management platform with leading-edge virtualization technology from partners including VMWare, Cisco, and IBM, providing a highly scalable and flexible high-performance Computing platform. Infinistructure's on-demand network, storage and Computing architecture allows customers to precisely match their infrastructure to their business needs, while leveraging a fully managed solution with plug-and-play access to network connecti ...

Source: www.webhostingfinds.com --- 1 day ago
Miami, Florida - (The Hosting News) - August 27, 2008 - Integrated Tier-1 Internet exchange and managed IT infrastructure solutions provider, Terremark, has completed deployment of the Infinistructure Utility-Computing platform at its facilities in Madrid and Amsterdam. Manuel D. Medina, [...] ...

Source: www.topix.com --- 23 days ago
AT&T Inc. has launched AT&T Synaptic Hosting, its next-generation Utility Computing service with managed networking, security and storage for businesses. ...

Source: www.dmeurope.com --- 3 days ago
The Infinistructure platform is connected to the ESpanix exchange point in Spain and the AMS-IX exchange point in The Netherlands. ...

Source: www.freedomlab.org --- 9 days ago
"IT, we've seen, can increase productivity in some applications and in some industries, though when you look at other applications in other industries you don't really see any effect, because the cost and the complexity outweigh the productivity gains. One thing we seem to have seen is that as you link computer systems together, as they become more networked, the likelihood of gaining productivity gains increases. So I think we can make an assumption, and we're going to have to wait and see if this comes true, that the cloud Computing model or the Utility Computing model because it's built on an easier sharing of applications and data may in fact boost productivity more than the old fragmented model where everybody had to build and run their own systems." Nicholas Carr , author of "Does IT Matter?" ...

Source: stage.vambenepe.com --- 56 days ago
This Forbes article (via John) channels 3Tera’s Bert Armijo’s call for standardization of Utility Computing. He calls it “Open Cloud” and it would “allow a company’s IT systems to be shared between different cloud Computing services and moved freely between them“. Bert talks a bit more about it on his blog and, while he doesn’t [...] ...

Source: blogs.zdnet.com --- 24 days ago
AT&T said Tuesday that it will offer cloud Computing services via a new service dubbed AT&T Synaptic Hosting. The telecom giant described Synaptic as a “next-generation Utility Computing service with managed networking, security and storage for businesses.” That’s a fancy way to say AT&T is offering a cloud Computing service. AT&T’s service (statement) is built with [...] ...

Source: www.informationweek.com --- 23 days ago
"Cloud Computing is the evolution and convergence of many seemingly independent Computing trends," Sam Charrington, VP of product management and marketing at Appistry, told a standing-room only LinuxWorld Expo session today. A laundry list of these trends includes commoditization, Internet delivery, virtualization, grid Computing, SOA, data center automation, SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, DaaS, Utility Computing, distributed Computing, Web 2.0, IT outsourcing, and storage. ...

Source: www.computerworld.com --- 26 days ago
Cloud Computing is the most recent successor to grid Computing, Utility Computing, virtualization and clustering. Cloud Computing overlaps these other concepts but has its own meaning: the ability to connect to software and data on the Internet (the cloud) instead of on your hard drive or local network. ...

Source: www.infoworld.com --- 25 days ago
Dell may be trying to grab control of a term that could define technology infrastructure for years to come.The company is applying to trademark the term "cloud Computing," according to a document on the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's Web site.Learn more about what cloud Computing really means and the new breed of Utility Computing and platform-as-a-service offerings. ]The application has reached the Notice of Allowance phase, where a company receives "a written notification fr ...