But for now, those larger companies are treating utility computing services as side projects or experiments.

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"Our customers told us that it was difficult and expensive to transcode video due to the explosion in the number of devices they need to support, " said Charlie Bell, Vice President of Utility Computing Services.

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Enki may not be able to leverage millions of servers like big companies including Sun Microsystems, Amazon, or IBM, which are also offering utility, or "cloud, " computing services.

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The two lapses, though unconnected and different in nature, have raised the question of whether customers can really trust the basic idea behind the cloud that you can buy computing services from the internet, just like gas or water from a utility (see article).

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