GA event to highlight on-demand computing

摘要

At its annual customer conference next week in Las Vegas, Computer Associates will flesh out its strategy for managing on-demand computing environments―a software-centric effort the company says is more flexible than the hardware-driven plans of rivals HP and IBM. Industry watchers say CA will address key requirements such as virtualization, provisioning and configuration management. On-demand, or utility computing refers to the idea of pooling system resources and dynamically allocating them to meet shifting demands instead of the traditional practice of assigning resources to applications. The latter has resulted in computing environments that often are 75% underutilized, when the ideal would be systems that are engaged actively 80% of the time.