Working and living in the Cloud
Our applications are migrating to the Cloud. The recent news is Microsoft My Phone, a service that will allow anyone with a Windows Mobile phone to automatically have their photos, contacts, calendar items, favorite websites and other data backed-up on a web-site hosted by Microsoft. Apple has its own Mobile Me, and Nokia has sync and files under the umbrella of OVI.
Further in the cloud are applications like Google with its Google Docs, Gmail, etc. Microsoft Live with its Office Live, SkyDrive, etc. And Amazon various services in the cloud.
Are these data centers centers becoming a commodity as the electric grid? This is the thesis supported by the latest provocative book by Nicholas Carr, The Big Switch: Rewiring the World from Edison to Google. An interesting book.
