Friday, February 26, 2010

The top 7 most overused cloud metaphors, sorted by weather pattern

Along with innovation, agility, and efficiency cloud computing has brought us a bevy of clever metaphors around the cloud concept. Unfortunately these play-on-words headlines are quickly becoming cliches. Below is a list of the most common metaphors I've come across, and headlines that use them. I hope this list will force us all to be a bit more original. (Note: Sorted by weather event chronological order)

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Posted by Lenny Rachitsky at 8:28 AM
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8 comments:

  1. While doing some cloud research and consulting for the federal government, we tried to figure out a way to work in "fog computing" but just couldn't quite make it fit...

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  2. I could see a story about the confusion around cloud computing being called "The Foggy Cloud"

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  4. Read a bunch about 'vapor' before. Might apply, too.

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  5. Hey, I appreciate to your writing.

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  6. Excellent what you have shared about the concept of cloud computing.Actually you have explained the usage of cloud computing step by step and i do hope that this post is very important for me.And the movement of the cloud is entailing certain costs, such as education of the employee or the costs involved in moving all applications to the cloud, among others.Thank you for your post.

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  7. I am agree with you that cloud is a metaphor for the Internet, but when it will combine with the word computing, the meaning “gets bigger and fuzzier. Cloud computing is originally meaning that all Internet based computing where resources, software and information will share as electricity is on the power grid.Thank you very much for your great post.

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