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== History ==

Utility computing merely means "Pay and Use", with regards to computing power.

Utility computing is not a new concept, but rather has quite a long history. Among the earliest references is:

{{cquote|If computers of the kind I have advocated become the computers of the future, then computing may someday be organized as a public utility just as the telephone system is a public utility... The computer utility could become the basis of a new and important industry.|author=[[John McCarthy (computer scientist)|John McCarthy]]|source=speaking at the MIT Centennial in 1961<ref>{{cite book|title=Architects of the Information Society, Thirty-Five Years of the Laboratory for Computer Science at MIT|editor1-first=Hal|editor1-last=Abelson|first1=Simson|last1=Garfinkel|isbn=978-0-262-07196-3|publisher=MIT Press|year=1999}}</ref>}}

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In spring 2006 [[3tera]] announced its AppLogic service and later that summer Amazon launched [[Amazon EC2]] (Elastic Compute Cloud). These services allow the operation of general purpose computing applications. Both are based on [[Xen]] virtualization software and the most commonly used operating system on the virtual computers is Linux, though Windows and Solaris are supported. Common uses include web application, SaaS, image rendering and processing but also general-purpose business applications.

Utility computing merely means "Pay and Use", with regards to computing power.

== See also ==