The "Cloud" and "server-centric computing" is a hot topic. Nicholas Carr, the former
Executive Editor of the Harvard Business Review, has written an entire book on the
subject that this article succinctly addresses, entitled "The Big Switch". In it,
he asserts: "The PC age is giving way to a new era: the utility age." He goes on
to make this prediction: "Rendered obsolete, the traditional PC is replaced by a
simple terminal -- a "thin client" that's little more than a monitor hooked up to
the Internet." While that may sound far-fetched, in the corporate market, sales
of these "thin clients" have been growing at over 20% per year -- far outpacing
PCs. According to market-research firm IDC, the U.S. is now home to more than 7,000
data centers. And the number of servers operating within these data centers is expected
to grow to nearly 16 million by 2010 -- that's three times as many as a decade ago.
"Data centers have become as vital to the functioning of society as power stations."
- The Economist.
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The Economist goes on furtherto claim, "As computing moves online, the sources of
power and money will increasingly be enormous 'computing clouds.'"
David Hamilton of the Financial Post says this technology "has the potential to
shower billions in revenues on companies that embrace it."
A "shift" is a dramatic change. In the past 50 years, we have had three huge shifts
in computing and we are about to have a fourth. As these quotes emphasis, it's going
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