The National Audit Office has criticised UK utility regulators for their handling of Year 2000 compliance monitoring. There are gaps in the utility regulators' knowledge of what the companies are doing to address the millennium problem, for example...
Utility.com, the first online utility company, has announced it will file an application to become the first alternative seller of electricity in the state of Nevada, US. Chris King, CEO of Utility.com, will testify to the Nevada State senate on...
UK utility companies are increasingly turning to IT outsourcing as a way of beating rivals and escaping regulatory pressure, according to a survey by research unit, Datamonitor. The research shows that over 37 per cent of all outsourcing contracts...
The deal underscores a fledgling trend among technology companies to promote computing as a utility, with businesses tapping IT resources only as necessary. The two companies will tap into a collection of IBM applications called Utility Management...
Dell will pass on so-called utility computing for now, one of the company's top executives said on Wednesday. Although the concepts behind utility, or on-demand, computing are appealing, the technology for assembling disparate servers and storage...
Hewlett-Packard is merging several management tools into a single product code-named Nimbus - a move that could boost its utility computing effort as well as a strategy that relies on Intel's Itanium processor.