Although industry surveys suggest that enterprises are hesitant to subscribe to on-demand computing services, most market forecasters expect demand for utility computing to grow among organizations of ...

Budget Plans & Benefits Despite a high degree of skepticism, 62% of respondents to Computerworld’s exclusive survey said they are either deploying or investigating the on-demand computing model. More ...

What is wrong with the idea of on-demand computing? On-demand is a relatively new concept that has gotten a lot of press in the last several months. In theory, on-demand computing means that computing ...

The first major cloud computing breakthrough came in 2006, when Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched EC2 and S3. For the first time, businesses gained on-demand access to computing power and storage ...

IBM customers looking for some extra processing power can now lease supercomputer-sized Linux and Unix clusters over the Internet, thanks to a new computing facility in Poughkeepsie, N.J., that Big ...

Ultimately, IBM foresees that the combination of these networks and other advances such as grid computing will allow businesses to buy computing power on demand, similar to the way electricity is ...

IBM Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. have launched on-demand computing services where customers submit work to the companies and pay by the computer cycle used. IBM Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. each ...

Was that speech really made just one year ago? It's hard to believe after being pummeled for what seems like eons by unrelenting on-demand marketing hype. Yet at this crucial juncture, Palmisano's ...

Grid computing is hot these days. With high-profile projects ranging from a search for extraterrestrial intelligence to a search for smallpox therapeutics, many researchers are looking to the grid as ...

Simulation software firm Exa has a customer list that reads like a who’s who of the automotive industry: Audi, BMW, DaimlerChrysler and Ford, to name a few. The automakers rely on Exa for ...

Nvidia has posted a 154% increase in revenue for its datacentre business in the second quarter of 2025, compared with the same period a year ago, generating $26.3bn. Overall, the company posted what ...