Comments on: Dilbert disses cloud (or at least cloudwashing)

By: Philip Shanks

Philip Shanks — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 22:58:50 +0000

@vas: Sure, the criteria for cloud computing are the same as they always have been: on-demand provisioning, elasticity and consumption-based billing. The other things you mention (transparent failure, app dev agility, monitoring and configuration) are not unique to cloud computing and are not really defining elements.

By: Philip Shanks

Philip Shanks — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 22:54:40 +0000

I love to blame marketers for this kind of thing, but a good deal of fault lies the other side. Cloud consumers (management folks mostly) haven’t really bothered to educate themselves on the terminology, giving the marketers license to abuse it with impunity.
I suspect that once everyone has realized that cloud computing is simply a service delivery paradigm and not a technology, things will settle down nicely and we can get back to business. Scott Adams excels at taking the wind out of such pompous sails.

By: vas

vas — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 14:45:37 +0000

Can we put a simple criteria that separates jargon from the real thing? such as 1) how fast you scale to the traffic 2) how transparent are system failures 3) how fast apps are developed 4) how easy is to monitor and configure. Please add more or modify to a simple criteria

By: Robert L. Greenberg

Robert L. Greenberg — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 01:49:54 +0000

Dilbert is always good about calling out jargon overuse. While the “cloud” is an important trend in computing, its overuse is now truly comical.

By: Barb Darrow

Barb Darrow — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 21:57:01 +0000

guilty as charged, anon. Although hopefully **most** of our cloud stories are actually on cloud.

By: Anon

Anon — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 17:59:54 +0000

One quarter of the stories on the GigaOm front page have “Cloud” in them and the site has a section dedicated to Cloud. Plenty of blame to go around! ;-)

By: Encyclopedia of Clouds

Encyclopedia of Clouds — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 08:30:01 +0000

Hey there “cloud” …

“Who do you think you are Rambo?
Or a cumulonimbus capillatus?
Or a cirrus? Or an altostratus?
Somebody to make somebody like me proud?
In the encyclopedia of clouds. …”

By: sachin

sachin — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 05:19:36 +0000

re-asserts what we all have been whispering for so long on looking at Cloud charts from sales guys…

By: alexmedawayhasleftthebuilding

alexmedawayhasleftthebuilding — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 01:36:59 +0000

love the reference lol

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 00:49:05 +0000

I work for one of these companies. We have always been a Software as a Service company, COMPLETELY internet based. Last year we added CLOUD everywhere, changed nothing, but now we are a Cloud Company.