During his keynote speech at the Society for Information Management’s SIMposium 08 conference in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., this morning, author Nicholas Carr drew an analogy between cloud computing and the transition that manufacturers made from generating their own power to relying on utilities in the early 20th century. In Carr’s opinion, IT “is going to be the next great business resource that makes a similar shift,” particularly as organizations look to increase their server and storage utilization rates without dedicating an even more sizable portion of their IT budgets to the salaries of the workers who support those systems.
Q&A: Nicholas Carr on ‘The Big Switch’ to Cloud Computing
November 12, 2008