Instead, companies like Google will host the world's data processing and storage--we'll just pay the bills.

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Instead, companies like Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) will host the world's data processing and storage--we'll just pay the bills.

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Sun's announcement marks the information technology industry's latest step toward "utility computing, " a grid system in which companies pipe in data processing and storage from faraway server farms, says Nicholas Carr, author of The Big Switch, a book on utility computing published earlier this week.

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