Utility Computing Meets Real Life [Archive.org URL]

Utility computing, a much-hyped vision of the future of enterprise computing, is finally coming into focus. For years, full-service technology vendors such as Hewlett-Packard, IBM, and Sun Microsystems have touted a future in which all the components in a data center coexist in a flexible fabric that lets business-technology managers allocate and reallocate server capacity, storage capacity, network bandwidth, and other resources as needed. They’re beginning to offer pieces of that vision, and some customers are starting to test whether the concept delivers the promised benefits.

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