Utility computing & virtualization seems to be the hot topic these days. Especially when it provides powerful resources while keep being easy to manage for admin’s and end-users. Today hardware scalability issues are becoming more and more critical for many web companies out there, and having an easy way to up- (and DOWN-) scale on-demand is something that whole lot of them would probably like to do.

A company called 3tera claims to have a solution to that problem - offering really stunning grid / utility computing services along with very user-friendly yet still powerfull browser-based user interface. I that sounds like an interesting topic for you - I strongly encourage you to check their AppLogic product demo - it does look pretty impressive!