If controversial IT pundit Nick Carr is right, there may be little IT left to manage in a few decades — thanks to the notion of utility computing. Carr, the former executive editor of the Harvard Business Review, recently predicted that all computer technology, except the devices we physically interact with such as keyboards, monitors and printers, will reside outside the corporate walls and be sold to the enterprise as a pay-as-you-go utility. His comments appeared in an MIT Sloan Management Review article entitled The End of Corporate Computing. Other industry observers, however, say there are still many hurdles to overcome before this becomes reality.
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