Nicholas Carr tends to be nothing if not controversial! In reality, his controversy often comes from his choice of headlines, rather than the arguments he makes underneath them (e.g., the infamous “IT Doesn’t Matter” piece).
His latest post is Alan Turing, cloud computing and IT’s future, and in the post you will find a link to download an 8-page article on Turing’s Universal Computing Machine, Cloud Computing and Virtualization. (It’s actually 6 pages, plus cover and a one-page add for Nick’s new book, “The Big Switch”.) It’s a very readable article, and a great description of cloud computing and its future promise. The article contains some good examples from Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Dell. While I’ve focused almost exclusively on the organizational aspects of IT circa 2017, Nick’s paper on IT in 2018 gives a scant single paragraph to the subject, but that’s ok with me. Again, its a good read, and I think pretty accurate in its predictions – certainly something you could pass along to a non-techie to drive some interesting rumination on the next 10 years in computing.
The download is free but does require a registration with Internet.com if you are not already registered. This also seems to be a decent repository of all sorts of things, from articles to device drivers.
Filed under: IT Infrastructure, IT Management Tagged: | Cloud computing, Nicholas Carr, virtualization
By the way, the photograph I selected to head this article is, of course, Alan Turing, NOT Nicholas Carr! Thought I should probably clarify!
Vaughan,
I’ve tried to put The Cloud in historical context and discussed some of its forerunners here:
http://www.keystonesandrivets.com/kar/2008/02/cloud-computing.html
My take is that:
“I’m sure that advances will appear over the coming years to bring us closer, but at the moment there are too many issues and costs with network traffic and data movements to allow it to happen for all but select processor intensive applications, such as image rendering and finite modelling.”
PJW
But its already happening in a big way. Today, many small businesses have moved most (in come cases, all) their computing into the cloud – they access all data and applications as services. Even many very large companies are using SaaS such as Saleforce.com – i.e., have moved much of their CRM automation to the cloud.
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