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http://searchcio.techtarget.com [Searchcio.techtarget.com] Jason Bloomberg, Senior Analyst with ZapThink, says that on-demand computing is a broad category that includes all the other terms, each of which means something slightly different. Utility computing, for example, is an on-demand approach that combines outsourced computing resources and infrastructure management with a usage-based payment structure (this approach is sometimes known as metered services).

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[Looselycoupled.com] Loosely Coupled weblog - on-demand web services: It's been helping ISVs service-enable their software for more than four years, under its ASP Prime program (later renamed xSP Prime, and now apparently subsumed into the broader on-demand computing strategy). But for many years, ASPs suffered from a lack of commitment from industry leaders to really invest in developing the technologies, standards and infrastructure that this form of computing requires.

http://www.enterpriseleadership.org [Enterpriseleadership.org] Technology On Tap ”” EnterpriseLeadership.org: IT and business leaders are taking the on-demand computing movement very seriously -- as they should -- but they are also appropriately skeptical, having seen the hype cycle at work before. Murray Horwitz, CIO at Uline Inc., a Waukegan, Ill., shipping supplies company that currently has no plans to adopt an on-demand model, speaks for many technology leaders when he says, "It's a great concept, but I don't know how you implement it, and I think [vendors and enterprises] are going to have trouble figuring out how to cost it." This article's mission is to cut through the hype, language barriers and confusion to present a cleareyed look at on-demand computing -- its genesis, potential, limitations and implications for your business.

[Landgrant.biz] Landgrant.biz : Landgrant.biz Blog: Thus, Michael Bloomberg has the bullion’d credentials to demand guruhood for his business technology knowledge.

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