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Catchword for “utility computing”
Catchword: utility computing
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Part of speech: n.
Quotation: There’s another term for this: Utility computing. It’s the idea that server systems will no longer need to be managed as a set of boxes, but instead as a pool of virtualized resources. These resources can be scaled up or scaled down as needed and will be used mainly by large service providers. Then companies and IT departments can simply buy the capacity that they need from the service providers instead of having to build out for maximum capacity and then allowing a lot of extra capacity to go unused most of the time.
Article or document title:
“Networks vs. servers: The truce has ended” (URL)
Author:
Jason Hiner
Article, document, publication, web site:
ZDNet Asia
Date of publication:
Mar. 26, 2009
This catchword has yet to be researched.
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Comments:
i think you mean to say, "There’s another term for this: CLOUD computing."
by patricia 26 Mar 09, 0614 GMT
No, that's the quote, not my words. Click through to the article to see what I mean.
by Grant Barrett 26 Mar 09, 0644 GMT
What "they" are calling Cloud Computing should be more appropriately referred to as Utliity Computing. And please, regulated the same way we regulate the big utility companies. Who supports Cloud computing? Microsoft, Sun, IBM ... They just want to become the next set of utility companies. Look out Ma Bell, Cable TV companies, and Cellular Services. As the "cloud" gets going it will utilitize computing/communication into a handheld, WIFI, bluetooth, cisco switched world. Aloha
by Ken Meibos 28 Mar 09, 0551 GMT

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