Posted September 18th, 2008 by
Joe Panettieri
During his keynote at the ConnectWise Partner Summit, Nicholas Carr, author of The Big Switch, showed clear evidence that cloud computing is real today.
Following the opening keynote from ConnectWise CEO Arnie Bellini, Carr walked attendees through the past, present and future of IT. And he compared IT to the evolution of electricity services.
In the early 1990s, he noted, many companies and factories had their own internal electric power plants. But as electric utilities came onto the scene, businesses found that it was far more efficient to outsource their electricity needs to the emerging electric grid.
“IT will be the next resource that goes through a very similar shift,” asserted Carr. Here’s a more extensive look at Carr’s keynote, and its implications for managed service providers.
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