Big Switch - A book by Nicholas Carr

I was discussing "Big Switch by Nicholas Carr" with Ven - a friend of mine. For those of you who don't know about the book, go to Nicholas Carr's site - http://www.nicholasgcarr.com/bigswitch/.

It is an excellently written book about transformation of computing as a utility. Nicholas compares computing to the evolution of electric utility and points out a number of similarities.

Ven has a number of years of experience in the computing industry and has worked for many a big names. Not having read the book, his immediate response was - but the cost of computers is a major factor. What he meant was the TCO for computing infrastructure (including hardware, software and operations costs) even for high performance environments is fairly low enough to motivate people to go the utility way. The only true advantage is data redundancy.

More to come on this...

Ram.