PA extract:
“Within the space of a year,” said Alastair McAulay, managing consultant for PA Consulting Group, “utility computing has progressed from being an esoteric idea to one of the most talked-about topics in the arena of IT service delivery. The major industry players, such as IBM and HP, claim that it is going to have one of the biggest impacts on the industry since the birth of the Internet, with utility computing potentially developing into a US$50 billion industry.
“But as with all the hyped trends of the past few years,” cautioned McAulay, “utility computing should be approached with caution.”
McAulay: “Although there is not yet consensus on what exactly utility computing is, an acceptable definition is emerging: a collection of technologies that allows IT resources to be pooled into a seamless whole, either from inside the organization or provided by a third party. The impact for business is that IT resources, such as storage, transaction processing, network capacity and applications, need not be constrained by an organization’s physical infrastructure.”
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