Saturday I survived my first baby shower. I believe my friend registered at Babies R Us, but I decided the bookstore was safer territory, and picked up some classics. Since it's a boy, I bought Clifford, Curious George, and a couple books about trains. If I know one thing, if anything at all, about boys, they dig transportation. I personally do not know of any cool kids' book about computers that contain important life lessons like honesty and perseverance and not trusting big bad wolves. Gosh Mom and Dad, if only I learned html with the ABCs!
In today's post, I wanted to mention a new buzz word for a phenomenon that's actually been around for a long time. Cloud computing. Oracle and IBM have been doing it for years, referring to it as "grid computing," before the buzz-word "cloud" appeared on the Doppler. IBM has actually distinguished between the metaphors.
In my search for a definition, I found that Wikipedia's was the most cohesive and coherent. However, my friend, NYT Dave, one up-ed them all.
Definition: Cloud computing- "If you use Gmail, you are cloud computing. People find the concept hard to grasp, but I don't know why. When you keep your shit on the Internet, instead of your computer, you are cloud computing. That's all there is to it."
Wow.
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Poor kid!
NYT Dave is spot-on with his cloud assessment, but for sales volume purposes most people working at "cloud" companies prefer the hype to the reality - I saw Larry Ellison speak recently and loved his cloud thoughts:
ReplyDelete"The interesting thing about cloud computing is that we've redefined cloud computing to include everything that we already do. I can't think of anything that isn't cloud computing with all of these announcements. The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women's fashion. Maybe I'm an idiot, but I have no idea what anyone is talking about. What is it? It's complete gibberish. It's insane. When is this idiocy going to stop?"
On a related note, cloud content management is the future :)