The new economics of computing
Are we missing the point about cloud computing? That question has been rattling around in my mind for the last few days, as the chatter about the role of the cloud in business IT has intensified. The discussion to date has largely had a retrospective cast, focusing on the costs and benefits of shifting existing IT functions and operations from in-house data centers into the cloud. How can the clou
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: What Tim O'Reilly Gets Wrong About the Cloud
October 26, 2008 Technology publisher and Web 2.0 impresario Tim O'Reilly wrote a thought-provoking post today about the dynamics of the nascent cloud computing business. He makes some important and valid points, but his analysis is also flawed, and the flaws of his argument are as revealing as its strengths. O'Reilly begins by taking issue with Hugh MacLeod's contention that, thanks to "power law
Understanding Amazon Web Services
There are two ways to look at Amazon.com: as a retailer, and as a software company that runs a retailing application. Both are accurate, and in combination they explain why Amazon, rather than a traditional computer company, has become the most successful early mover in supplying computing as a utility service. For Amazon, running a cloud computing service is core to its business in a way that it
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Reality mining and your cell phone
« Free Big Switches | Main | Big Switch: now shipping » Reality mining and your cell phone December 20, 2007 If you'd like to know why companies like Google and Yahoo are so intent on gaining access to your mobile phone, take a look at the research on "reality mining" that's being undertaken by an MIT team led by Sandy Pentland. In an interview with Technology Review, Pentland explains how modern
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Understanding Google
« Microsoft extends data center buildout to Siberia | Main | My(Work)Space » Understanding Google November 27, 2007 Any understanding of Google as a business has to begin, I'm convinced, in the idea of complementary goods. In The Google Enigma, an article in the new issue of Strategy & Business, I argue that the wide scope of Google's interest and activity is a natural and inevitable result of the
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Why Kindle is no iPod
« Google gets a warning from Congress | Main | Against free » Why Kindle is no iPod November 20, 2007 Amazon is, tacitly at least, positioning its Kindle ebook reader as the "iPod of reading." While as a handheld device tied into an online store, it bears some resemblance to Apple's blockbuster, that's where the similarity ends. The Kindle enters a market that is entirely different from the one th
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: The Luddite dream of Jeff Bezos
« Look, ma, no servers | Main | Google gets a warning from Congress » The Luddite dream of Jeff Bezos November 19, 2007 Writes Jeff Bezos today, on the Amazon.com home page: I love slipping into a comfortable chair for a long read - as I relax into the chair, I also relax into the author's words, stories, and ideas. The physical book is so elegant that the artifact itself disappears into the backg
Welcome Web 3.0!
Web 2.0 is so over. First came the tepid reviews of the third annual 2.0 boondoggle. “If you were looking to learn something new,” sniffed GigaOm’s Liz Gannes, “this week’s Web 2.0 Summit was not the place to be.” Wrote a jaded Scott Karp, “there were few revelations, few moments where you had the exhilarating experience of seeing something that was about to change the world. Every conversation I
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: More blogs, less weight
« Welcome back to frugal computing | Main | Welcome Web 3.0! » More blogs, less weight November 10, 2006 One thing struck me as I read through the latest State of the Blogosphere report from Technorati boss David Sifry. It wasn’t that the total number of blogs in the known world had leapt once again, to something like 837.4 trillion. Rather, it was the rapidly shrinking presence of blogs among the
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: SAP's mixed-up confusion
November 29, 2006 Thomas Otter, a smart technology blogger who works for the corporate software giant SAP in Germany, finds himself baffled and befuddled these days. He can't figure out what "software-as-a-service" means. "For ages," he writes, rhetorically scratching his head, "I have been trying to figure out what SaaS is. I’m still no clearer, and I have read masses of posts, analyst reports [a
IT doesn’t matter, part 1
Advertisement Now available: Nicholas Carr’s acclaimed new book, The Glass Cage “Essential” –New York Times “Elegant” –Wall Street Journal Order Now from Amazon.com In the following article, originally published in the May 2003 edition of the Harvard Business Review, I examine the evolution of information technology in business and show that it follows a pattern strikingly similar to that of earli
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: The new new journalism
« Crash | Main | The Wikipedian brain » The new new journalism January 07, 2007 I have seen the future of journalism and his name is Andy Abramson. I happened to be looking at Techmeme last night, and I saw that the lead story - at the very tippy top of the heap - was a piece by Abramson, from his blog VoIP Watch. It was titled "Creative Video Blogging and the New 'Instant Journalism.'" I was intr
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: The industrialization of software
« Flickering Man | Main | Dialectic » The industrialization of software June 28, 2007 From my column in today's Guardian: To be a successful software company today, you increasingly have to worry not just about writing code but about assembling and maintaining big, complex hardware systems. There's an irony here. Since the arrival of the web nearly two decades ago, the pundits of information proce
What is Web 3.0?
Back in May, an intrepid interlocutor in Korea stuck a pointy stick into a semantic hornet’s nest by asking Google’s resident CEO, Eric Schmidt, an “easy question”: What is Web 3.0? After some grumbling about “marketing terms,” Schmidt obliged, saying that, to him, Web 3.0 is all about the simplification and democratization of software development, as people would begin to draw on the tools and da
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: VMware, Xen and the hardware business
August 15, 2007 Yesterday's feeding frenzy for VMware's freshly spawned stock may or may not prove to be rational, but, together with today's news that Citrix is paying a hefty price to buy XenSource, what it clearly shows is that investors have taken notice of a sea change in the IT business: a great deal of money that would traditionally have gone into hardware is now going into software instead
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: ByDesign: has SAP unleashed a cannibal?
« A very silly report on "fair use" | Main | Only disconnect » ByDesign: has SAP unleashed a cannibal? September 19, 2007 The business software giant SAP finally made its formal entry into the software-as-a-service (SaaS) market today, as it unveiled Business ByDesign, a version of its popular business software that will be delivered over the Internet rather than installed on clients' computers. S
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