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This is a 4 page paper that provides an overview of Carr's “The Big Switch”. The economic and social impacts of cloud computing are considered. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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spread throughout nearly all industries. Just twenty years ago, it was still the case that only the largest corporations utilized computing systems as an integral part of conducting business, but
today it is unthinkable that even the smallest business would not utilize information technology in at least some respect. Part of the reason for this spread, which has utterly transformed
business, has been the commodification of information technology and the resulting move away from expensive, independently maintained proprietary computer systems towards the use of network-delivered services (sometimes called "cloud computing").
This decentralization of services, combined with a low cost, is not only transforming business, however, but society as a whole, according to texts such as Carrs "The Big Switch". This
paragraph helps the student introduce the text and begin to summarize it. The main premise of Carrs text is the comparison between information technology in the modern age to electricity
at the dawn of the 20th century. In the late 19th century, Carr points out, most businesses supplied their own power through burning their own fuels or running generators, an
extremely costly enterprise (Carr, 2008). Once electric power became more readily established, however, these organizations were able to tap into a centralized power grid and draw upon electricity as a
commoditized "service", rather than an internally integrated aspect of doing business (Carr, 2008). The analogy is fiercely sound, as "the computer and dynamo each form the nodal elements of physically
distributed transmission networks" (David, 1990). In the same way, Carr argues, organizations are now moving away from having their own expensive banks of computer equipment and privately developed proprietary software,
and are instead embracing the use of externalized services distributed through networks, as this is a more flexible and ultimately more productive architecture (Carr, 2008). The reason for this
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