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Innovation Showcase : The Danger in Relying on the Electric Utility Model for the Cloud
posted by wzackwzack 1182 days, 1 hour, 15 minutes ago
Sunday, February 28, 2010 11:38:45 PM GMT

The danger in Relying on the Electric Utility Model for the Cloud

Sitting in my nth Cloud symposium last week I again heard the argument that the Cloud should be modeled after an electric power utility. You just plug into it and stuff works.  This analogy has been used lots of places, most recently in Nicholas Carr’s book The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google.   In that book the author chronicles the evolution of electric power from being self-generated by factories ...

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