LAST month, Sun Microsystems, a big computer-maker, announced the details of its plans to rent computers over the internet. Instead of crunching numbers on their own in-house machines, customers of ...

Sun Microsystems is expanding a program to sell computing horsepower in a way that's similar to how power companies sell electricity. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based server seller has broken computing ...

HP Labs, he explains, is looking at the computon as a way to measure storage and other IT capacity, such as network resources and computer power. “Just as there is a standardized way to pay for ...

Vendors would have you believe that utility computing is on the horizon. In the pretty pictures they paint of this next big shift in powering IT, standards play a central role. There’s TCP/IP, Linux ...