Another milestone for Utility Computing?

In recent weeks, we have seen a second wave of vendors making major utility computing statements: Big names like Computer Associates, Unisys, Veritas and EMC have all announced their own variant of it. So is the landscape clearer now? Or is it just more crowded? Is the message to potential users unified or consolidated?

The good news is, there are no more new terms to learn. Unlike in the initial stage where every early company attempted to create their own terms for similar ideas... Click here for Full Article
[by Edward Tsang, Senior Strategist, UtilityComputing.com]

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Why Utility Computing Will Succeed Where ASPs and Outsourcing Failed
In our last article ("Will the Real Utility Computing Model Please Stand Up") we defined utility computing as the provision of IT-based functionality on demand. We argued that much of the marketing hype around utility computing misses the mark. IBM and other vendors hoping to benefit from the trend have done the concept a disservice by not being clear about their own definition and delivering very little in the way of working examples. As a consequence users are struggling to see the difference between utility computing and previous, failed attempts to reduce the cost and complexity of IT such as Application Service Providers (ASPs) and outsourcing. In today's article, we will explain why utility computing will succeed where the others failed.

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[by Leif Eriksen, Founder and Principal, Industry Insights]

Linux Enterprise Environments not neglected by the Utility Computing Vendors
Veritas Software has announced new clustering tools that help IT organizations evolve toward a utility computing model on the Linux platform. Veritas Cluster Server agents are now available to enable fast automated recovery and increase the availability of Linux enterprise environments running IBM DB2, MySQL and Oracle databases. The company claims that increased service levels can now be achieved by constantly monitoring the health of databases with Veritas Cluster Server agents in conjunction with technologies that manage server and application performance and automate server provisioning.
[2003/8/5 UC Newsdesk]

Bank of America, AutoTradeCenter and Sandia Labs demonstrate adoption of new enterprise management technologies
HP has announced new Linux-based management and clustering solutions designed to help enterprise customers realize a better return on IT through the use of open systems. HP claim that their newest Linux customers AutoTradeCenter, Bank of America and Sandia National Laboratories are taking advantage of Linux's cost savings while accelerating their transformation into adaptive enterprises.
[2003/8/5 UC Newsdesk]

HP and United Devices team up to demonstrate bioscience computing solution on Linux
United Devices have announced they will demonstrate what they describe as "high-speed, low-cost bioscience computing" by combining their Grid MP Enterprise platform with the HP High Performance Clusters LC Series. They will demonstrate GOLD, a protein-ligand docking application developed by the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre on an HP LC cluster.
[2003/8/5 UC Newsdesk]

Savantis' Vision for Database Utility Computing announced at LinuxWorld
Savantis Systems, Inc., a provider of database server virtualization solutions, announced today, in conjunction with LinuxWorld, the immediate support for the Linux operating system and unveiled its vision for database utility computing. The Database Resource Management (DBRM) solution allows data centers to virtualize database servers and leverage resources across multiple applications on demand.
[2003/8/4 UC Newsdesk]

Drug Discovery Technology the target for United Devices and Optive Research
United Devices has announced a partnership with life sciences software company, Optive Research to develop software for computer-assisted drug discovery (CADD) specifically optimized for United Devices' grid computing platform. The partnership should allow pharmaceutical companies to speed lead identification and lead optimization phases of the drug discovery process resulting in the development of novel cheminformatic and molecular design software that was previously impossible or impractical.
[2003/8/4 UC Newsdesk]

EMC looks to software and services to power turnaround
EMC wants to "take a little bit of a page from IBM (Corp.)'s book" and position itself as an end-to-end provider of hardware, software and services to meet all of its customers' storage needs, Chief Executive Officer Joe Tucci told analysts Wednesday in New York during EMC's annual strategy briefing.
[2003/8/7 Computerworld]

A Brilliant Future for the Smart Home
Imagine a completely networked home -- a smart home, if you will -- in which every appliance has its own Internet address and can be remotely managed from anywhere on the Internet with a simple Web browser. Did you forget to turn off the coffee pot before you left for work? Simply log on to your home's network and shut it off remotely.
[2003/8/4 E-Commerce Times]

Volume 01 Issue 12
Utility Computing vendors begin to add flesh to the vision... Will the Real Utility Computing Model Please Stand Up... Unisys add power to their utility computing "Business Blueprinting" plan...
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Volume 01 Issue 11
Putting Magic back in Business?... Keeping the door locked tight: Utility Computing Security Concerns... Global Series of Utility Computing Business Conferences Launched...
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Volume 01 Issue 10
A wake up call to the Enterprise Solutions giants... salesforce.com: A revolution in the software model?... Amazon.com and Carnival Cruise Lines to benefit from Utility Computing...
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Volume 01 Issue 09
Priorities for investment... SAIC's "Aggregator Model": New skills are key in a more flexible environment... Sun taking a thorough approach to Utility Computing...
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Volume 01 Issue 08
Changing the tune of the purchasing culture... Interview with Craig Sands, VP Services at Platform Computing... IBM Acquires Think Dynamics...
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