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INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Computing as a utility?
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Computing will soon be available on demand, making it a utility.A manager of an enterprise goes online, browses and downloads only a part of a software package that he and his organization require. He also responds to the organization's key partners, suppliers, customers and market opportunities and threats with speed. At the end of the week or the month he receives a bill for the amount of usage. This is on-demand computingthe budding technology.

On-demand or utility computing is about accessing storage, CPU cycles, bandwidth and also applications from a shared pool of resources based on demand and only paying for what is used. Companies can now easily purchase server time and storage without investing heavily in the servers and ensuring frequent upgradation of their software. This way a range of services are available to the users keeping the complexities at bay and thereby making the usage simple. By doing so it enables the companies to help pay as per the usage as in case of electricity, gas and telephone.

 
 
 

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