http://www.nwfusion.com/topics/utility.html The latest utility computing news and analysis from Network World Fusion. Network World, Inc. Copyright(C) 1994 - 2009 Network World, Inc. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/031709-cloud-computing.html IT infrastructure and services delivered over the cloud will be ubiquitous within five years, and vendors that ignore the shift from on-premises software to Internet-delivered technology will be left in the dust. Jon Brodkin 2009-03-17T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/092908-sys-admin-discovers-13-million-digit-prime.html A system administrator - not a mathematician - used a grid of computers supplied by volunteers at the University of California, Los Angeles, to find the world's largest known prime number. The immense number is made up of nearly 13 million digits. Sharon Gaudin 2008-09-29T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/080408-users-offered-virtualized-hosting.html Carrenza, a U.K.-based company that designs, builds and manages hosted networks, has launched a virtualized hosting service that it claims can reduce annual data center costs by up to 20 percent and power consumption by 60 percent. Tom Jowitt 2008-08-04T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/web/2008/071408web1.html A few weeks ago I wrote about GoGrid, purveyors of a grid (or cloud or utility) computing service. To recap, GoGrid is a cloud computing service that provides a Web interface through which you instantiate and manage load balancers, servers, and databases such that you can scale up or down as your needs dictate. The operating systems supported are CentOS, Red Hat, and Windows 2003 and GoGrid takes pains to make it clear is that these are not altered in any way to be compatible with its grid system. Mark Gibbs 2008-07-14T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/itlead/2008/070708itlead1.html There's some confusion about what exactly constitutes cloud computing, but one thing experts tend to agree on is the evolutionary effect this will have on IT. A new report from Gartner points to the opportunity to shape the relationship among consumers of IT services, those who use IT services and those who sell them. Amy Schurr 2008-07-08T12:00:00-04:00