Cloud computing and grid computing are often mistaken for one another, but the fact is that they’re nowhere close to the same thing. This article explains both systems, and how they differ from one ...

Itron’s advanced Grid Planning solution, powered by Snowflake, features four core modules available globally with phased General Availability (GA): Model Validator and Load Forecasting are generally ...

Data replication is a cornerstone of modern distributed computing, crucial for ensuring high availability, fault tolerance, and rapid data access in both cloud and grid environments. Contemporary ...

Despite all of its promises, until recently the concept of utility computing has gained only limited acceptance in the marketplace. There have been a variety of reasons for the slow adoption of this ...

Electric utilities have long been stewards of vast data sets: kilowatt hour reads, outage logs, SCADA snapshots. What has shifted is the speed at which those numbers must inform strategic decisions.

From a recent press release: In a free Xtalks webinar on Wednesday, April 10, 2007, 1:00 – 3:00pm EDT, Nicholas Carr, former Executive Editor, Harvard Business Review, Author of “Does IT Matter?

The rapid rollout of power-hungry AI data centers could be straining the US energy grid and causing utility bills to spike – and prices could get worse in the coming months, according to economists.

Utility computing. On-demand computing. Grid computing. No matter which catchphrase you use to describe the future of technology, if you work for a strategic IT organization, you want an ...

Virtualization has been around for quite some time, but it's only within the past 2 years that the technology has really started to take off and gain in popularity. Likewise, utility computing is only ...