Meanwhile Bloom framed the concept from a software, not hardware, point of view. "When you think about utility computing, [you need to] think about it from application users' perspectiveWe're not talking about a storage utility or a server utility. It's an application utility. The goal of the user is applications. And what do they want those applications to do? They want them to run really quick, and they want them to be highly available at a low cost. . . . There were better revenue streams we could have bought for the same dollar as Precise. We bought it because it's strategic, because we believe the fundamental view of the user in a utility computing model is going to be through the view of the application. And what you ultimately provision and what you ultimately dynamically manage in a utility is going to get determined based on what the performance manager tells you needs to happen. It's just going to be a central driving force of how people view and run a utility."
To learn more about the strategies coming from Oracle and Veritas, go to www.oracle.com/grid and www.veritas.com/utilitycomputing.
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