The report warns: "A utility that cannot defend itself in the competitive environment is a utility that will not be around in ten years. Utility companies are "radically restructuring IT processes to take account of the new market conditions", the...
ScottishPower has opted for Tibco Software's enterprise application integration (EAI) suite to simplify the way the energy company sells and markets its products and serves its customers. It also said that its B2B integration will allow the utility...
That cluster includes more than 2,000 Dell PowerEdge servers running Red Hat Linux. Analysts polled by earnings tracking firm FirstCall expect Dell to stick with its previous guidance of a profit of 23 cents per share on revenue of $9.5bn.
Adding to the momentum of so-called utility computing, Electronic Data will announce on Wednesday a flexibly priced service for managing desktop computers. Utility computing refers to the push to make computing power into a service similar to...
MLB.com Events Media, which serves up content to major-league baseball websites, has been able to maintain and even lower the amount of hardware it uses in its company data centre even as traffic has skyrocketed in the past two years, said Justin...
Southern Water serves around a million households in the south-east of England and is on a drive to streamline its business processes. The Scottish telco will manage wide and local area networks, voice services, telemetry and video conferencing for...