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CFO
November 17, 2003
Anne Stuart |
Utility Computing It's a little bit outsourcing. It's a little bit re-architecting. It's hard to describe. As with any potential technology revolution, the concept of utility computing faces plenty of potential barriers.   |
Entrepreneur
February 2004
Dian Vujovich |
Power Play Utility stocks have gone back to basics. |
InternetNews
April 11, 2007
Michael Hickins |
IBM Jolts SOA to Save Energy IBM is helping electrical utilities re-energize their aging infrastructures. |
Reason
June 2009
Lynne Kiesling |
Electric Intelligence Establishing a smart grid requires regulatory reform, not subsidies. |
The Motley Fool
July 12, 2005
Matt Thurmond |
Utilities That Pay YOU Electric utilities are some of the highest dividend payers in the market. |
CIO
April 15, 2003
Fred Hapgood |
Plug and Pay Utility computing promises processing power when you need it, where you need it. But the technology isn't making sparks fly yet. |
The Motley Fool
June 1, 2009
Elliott J. Orsillo |
Utilities: Diamonds in the Rough? Today's utilities could be tomorrow's clean-energy diamonds. |
InternetNews
October 28, 2005
Sean Michael Kerner |
Sun Ready to Light Public Grid Sun Microsystems is lighting up its utility computing initiative with thousands of customers waiting in the wings. |
BusinessWeek
June 4, 2007
Aaron Pressman |
New Spark In Utility Stocks Why the once-staid utility sector is generating breathtaking returns. |
InternetNews
December 9, 2005
Clint Boulton |
Analysts: Utility Computing a "Developing Concept" Customers and vendors like IBM, Hewlett Packard and Sun Microsystems are only taking baby steps toward utility computing, according to new research. |
Reason
October 2001
Sara Rimensnyder |
Source There's been one big winner in California's much-reviled, phony electricity deregulation plan: Los Angeles' publicly owned Department of Water and Power... |
IEEE Spectrum
December 2010
Seth Blumsack |
How the Free Market Rocked the Grid It led to higher rates and rolling blackouts, but it also opened the door to greener forms of electricity generation |
IndustryWeek
June 1, 2005
Doug Bartholomew |
On Demand Computing -- IT On Tap? Pay-on-demand only for the amount of IT resources you actually consume? Manufacturers want to know: Utility computing, is it real, or is it hype? And what does it mean to the IT department? |
CIO
July 1, 2003
Christopher Koch |
IBM's New Hook IBM's pitch that on-demand e-business will reduce IT costs and make everything work better sounds good, especially to CEOs who don't understand that the technologies to make it happen just don't exist. |
The Motley Fool
July 27, 2010
Rich Duprey |
Maybe the Smart Grid Is Dumb Regulators are forcing utilities that invested in the technology to wear a dunce cap. |
Financial Advisor
February 2005
Marla Brill |
Power Up Utility funds shined in 2004, but rising interest rates could slow them down. |
InternetNews
April 24, 2007
Michael Hickins |
Oracle Stacks Utilities Suite Oracle buys Lodestar to offer the utilities industry a wider range of management software tools. |
Wired
March 23, 2009
Brendan I. Koerner |
Power to the People: 7 Ways to Fix the Grid, Now The grid took more than a century to grow into the unwieldy beast it is now. Given the urgency of climate change, energy independence, and economic demands, we have only a fraction of that time to fix it. |
CIO
May 15, 2001
Heather Harreld |
What a Switch! Before deregulation, utilities didn't have to worry about customer service. Now they do. But buying CRM software won't do the trick... |
Salon.com
January 30, 2001
Anthony York |
The deregulation debacle Who's responsible for for California's electricity crisis? Everyone... |
CFO
June 16, 2003
Scott Leibs |
An Exercise in Utility We may be wired for the promise of IT as a utility, but we're a long way from simply flipping a switch. |
The Motley Fool
May 13, 2008
Zoe Van Schyndel |
Will Utilities Keep Shining? These utility ETFs have decent yields and low volatility, and they offer safe havens when markets are roiled. |
CRM
January 27, 2012
Leonard Klie |
Customer Interaction with Utilities via Social Media Is on the Rise New research also finds a growing number of utilities share information about service issues with customers via social media. |
Wall Street & Technology
February 4, 2005
Kerry Massaro |
Shared Data Services Several consulting firms and one vendor are looking to build separate utilities that would allow broker-dealers and investment managers to outsource their data services to achieve cost savings. A second model being considered is a utility owned and operated by the industry firms themselves. |
AFP eWire
May 23, 2005 |
Nonprofit Seeks to Encourage Utility Philanthropy The Utility Customers Charitable Trust is urging utility companies to begin Round Up programs that could ultimately lead to $1 billion a year in charitable giving. |
Investment Advisor
November 2005
Kathleen M. McBride |
Bright Idea Judith Saryan's Eaton Vance Utilities Fund generates returns, dividends, and value. Advisors need to look at where this fund would fit in an investor's portfolio. |
CRM
December 1, 2007
Colin Beasty |
Market Focus: Energy/Utilities -- Speaking Truth to Power (Companies) Analytics are increasingly leveraged for insight into customer behavior. |
InternetNews
March 18, 2008
Kenneth Corbin |
SES: The Cloud And The New Utility Companies Nicholas Carr delivered an inspiring, unsettling vision for computing power as a utility and predicted where the IT economy is headed. |
InternetNews
February 14, 2006
David Needle |
Open Source Will Help Advance of Utility Computing Open source software will play an important role in the inevitable move to a utility model of computing. |
InternetNews
October 22, 2004
Clint Boulton |
HP: UDC Alive and Well With rumors of its demise exaggerated somewhat, HP's Utility Data Center presses on, albeit redefined. |
InternetNews
October 21, 2005
David Needle |
An HP Focus on Utility Computing Pioneering computer firm Hewlett Packard tries to anticipate enterprise demand in 2010. |
InternetNews
September 21, 2004
Michael Singer |
Sun's Utility Grid To Open for Business The company debuts its pay-per-use services in increments of an hour starting at less than a dollar. |
InternetNews
November 30, 2005
David Needle |
HP Goes Public With Utility Computing Hewlett Packard is broadening its six-year-old utility computing initiative by making it publicly available for the first time, primarily to enterprise customers. |
The Motley Fool
September 9, 2010
Eric Dutram |
Thursday's ETF to Watch: XLUS XLUS tracks the S&P SmallCap 600 Utilities Index which consists of common stocks of U.S. utility companies. |
InternetNews
March 24, 2010 |
IBM Smart Grid Push Aims for Power Efficiency In a team-up with eMeter, IBM plans to help public utilities improve their power usage and efficiency. |
Fast Company
April 2010 |
Smart but Early: Home Energy Management A sampling of the players jockeying for position in this nascent market. |
The Motley Fool
August 31, 2009
Rich Duprey |
Utility to Drive Smart Grid Advances Drive a car with one foot on the gas and the other on the brake, and you'll get some idea of how we're driving our energy sector today. |
InternetNews
June 2, 2006
Clint Boulton |
IBM: Let The Billing Begin IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager is a Web-based tool that automatically logs the ebb and flow in the consumption of virtual server, software, middleware, storage and network assets on computers. |
Inc.
November 1, 2000
Emily Barker |
Upstarts: Energy Deregulation Where do you buy your electricity? If you don't have a choice now, you will soon... |
CRM
August 2005
Alexandra DeFelice |
Energizing Customer Relationships Utilities are finding ways to improve service through automated technology. The result is increased ROI in the field, at the call center, and across the business. |
InternetNews
January 14, 2010 |
Oracle Sees Water as the Next Smart Grid New survey from Oracle concludes that smart metering technologies will drive conservation. |
The Motley Fool
May 12, 2006
Stephen D. Simpson |
Quanta Putting It Together With a growing backlog, big-name clients, and a federal mandate to improve power service, it doesn't look like the utility company is close to a peak in its business yet. Investors, take note. |
CIO
January 4, 2012
Mark Rowh |
Smart Grid Security Inadequate, Threats Abound As the Stuxnet attack shows, malicious hackers "clearly have the upper hand" over power grid systems, a new study says. A lack of strict standards and a hodgepodge of products have created today's chaotic state of utility cybersecurity. |
InternetNews
February 11, 2004
Clint Boulton |
IBM, Veritas Lead New Utility Computing Standard New interoperability standard would be competing with a similar effort from EDS and Computer Associates. |
InternetNews
April 16, 2004
Clint Boulton |
Q&A: Hal Stern, CTO Sun Services The exec discusses how Sun's competition with IBM and recent pact with Microsoft factor in its utility computing strategy. |
The Motley Fool
December 13, 2010
Katherine Tweed |
How to Begin a Customer Care Overhaul A shift is already under way in how utilities companies interact with their customers, but it will need to pick up considerable steam in coming years. |
CIO
January 15, 2004
Michael Schrage |
What Goes On Behind Your Back Your company may outsource IT, but your business units will build their own IT systems anyway. Here's how to make sure you stay in the loop. |
InternetNews
December 12, 2005
Clint Boulton |
Ivy Leaguers Tap Into Sun's Grid Sun Microsystems gives Princeton University 100,000 hours on the Sun Grid Compute Utility to conduct astrophysical tests. |
BusinessWeek
September 16, 2010
Galante & Chediak |
Smart Meters May Not Be So Clever A consumer backlash is slowing rollouts of new electric meters |
InternetNews
November 8, 2004
Erin Joyce |
Living, Breathing, On Demand IT On Demand. Organic computing. Utility computing. It all adds up to one thing: a big shift under way in the technology industry to make systems more cost-effective. Find out what this trend may mean to you and your enterprise. |
