Cloud Computing - Computing with less Risk - The Berkeley View

Michael Armbrust et al., Technical Report
The authors posit that cloud computing has the potential to transform the IT industry by creating computing services with less risk of over- or under-provisioning based on fluctuating demand and by creating an elasticity of storage and processing resources.
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However, any time you decrease risk in one area – you simultaneously increase risk in another – so the questions is what risks do we increase with cloud computing?

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Nick Carr Has Never Been Right About IT..!

LOL - Sorry CIO, but Nick Carr has never been right about IT and competitive advantage. Moreover, the advent of cloud computing proves just how wrong Nick's argument about IT is..!


"CIO — Nick Carr was right and I was wrong. Sort of, anyway."
I confess to having roughed up Nick Carr quite a bit (in print, of course) over the past couple of years. I thought he was plain wrong in his book Does IT Matter? His argument there could be summed up as the spread of IT throughout the economy makes it impossible for any company to achieve competitive advantage through IT; therefore, companies should settle for a commodity IT perspective, spending no more than the minimum necessary to perform basic functionality." http://tiny.cc/60wpw