Renowned Author Nick Carr Highlights the Hottest IT Outsourcing Trend, Cloud Computing, in the Afterword Titled The Clouds Roll in to His Bestseller The Big Switch Observing great progress since 2008 in the development of Cloud Computing and IT as utility services, Nicholas G. Carr (aka Nick) has recently written the afterword titled The Clouds Roll in to his bestseller The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, From Edison to Google, 2008. Download the afterword from www.cloudsrollin.com
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Does Cloud Computing Matter? “At the corporate level, at the CIO level, the people have gotten past skepticism. They all accept that the cloud is here and it is going to make a big difference. But there is still a danger of being complacent, and I hear this amongst some CIOs that they still think that cloud would just be kind of a small addition to the traditional computing. Maybe they’ll use it for mobile computing, mobile services, mobile apps but I do think that there is a danger in being too complacent. So I don’t think it will be wise for every company to try to move too quickly to cloud. But I do think that all businesses should realize that this is going to be a fundamental shift in the nature of computing and you really need to start planning and experimenting now with all the different capabilities and stay on top of transition because you don’t want to fall behind because you put yourself at a disadvantage. “ said Nick while replying to several thought-provoking questions of HCL Technologies VP Anubhav Saxena who decided to catch Nick on camera and capture his thoughts on Cloud Computing.
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About Nick Carr Nicholas Carr (aka Nick) writes about technology, culture, and economics. His most recent book, The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, is a 2011 Pulitzer Prize nominee and a New York Times bestseller. Nick is also the author of two other influential books, The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google (2008) and Does IT Matter? (2004). His books have been translated into more than 20 languages. Nick has been a columnist for The Guardian in London and has written for The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Wired, The Times of London, The New Republic, The Financial Times, Die Zeit and other periodicals. His essay “Is Google Making Us Stupid?� has been collected in several anthologies, including The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2009, The Best Spiritual Writing 2010, and The Best Technology Writing 2009. Nick is a member of the Encyclopedia Britannica's editorial board of advisors, is on the steering board of the World Economic Forum's cloud computing project, and writes the popular blog Rough Type. He has been a writer-in-residence at the University of California, Berkeley, and is a sought-after speaker for academic and corporate events. Earlier in his career, he was executive editor of the Harvard Business Review. He holds a B.A. from Dartmouth College and an M.A., in English and American Literature and Language, from Harvard University.
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