Cloud du jour
June 4th, 2009Robin Harris made a great post last week over on Storage Mojo outlining 5 zombie storage concepts that should die. His last item on the list really hit home:
Cloud. Yep, the word du jour is, because of its popularity, rapidly being drained of meaning. Public? Private? Compute? Storage? Cheap? Secure? Software? Infrastructure? What??? Sure, talk about cloud, but for goodness sake don’t put the word cloud in a product name. You’ll regret it within 2 years if you do. If you simply must then follow EMC’s oblique approach with Atmos.
I appreciate the need for a simple buzz word with a real-world analog to help people understand and get excited about new technology, but meaning is being drained from “cloud” at a break-neck pace. This blog is a great place monitor the insanity.
