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There was some initial skepticism about such a significant shift.<ref>{{citation | publisher=ZD Net | url=http://www.zdnet.com/news/on-demand-computing-what-are-the-odds/296135 | title=On-demand computing: What are the odds? | first= | last= | date=Nov 2002 | accessdate=Oct 2010}}</ref> However, the new model of computing caught on and eventually became mainstream.

IBM, HP and Microsoft were early leaders in the new field of Utilityutility Computingcomputing, with their business units and researchers working on the architecture, payment and development challenges of the new computing model. Google, Amazon and others started to take the lead in 2008, as they established their own utility services for computing, storage and applications.

Utility Computing can support grid computing which has the characteristic of very large computations or a sudden peaks in demand which are supported via a large number of computers.