The Big Switch
kelly| May 27, 2008 5:09 pmGeert Lovink has a review of Nicholas Carr’s new book, The Big Switch:
The Big Switch can be summarized in one sentence: the shift from in-house computer systems to ‘cloud computing’. Instead of storing applications on each individual PC, will we soon have everything store in central data warehouses. Such data centres are not entire new. What’s emerging is the enormous scale in which companies like Google are actively anticipating the future migration of (corporate) IT systems to a few global hubs. The Big Switch poses all sorts of interesting questions for those activists, researchers and artists who prefer to work independently. Ever since we got access to the Internet, in 1993, it has been issue whether or not to build autonomous infrastructures, or to virtual hosting from somewhere, usually in the USA. link
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