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Gartner Buzzword Tracker Says "Cloud Computing" Still on Hype Wave
If you're sick of the term "cloud" to refer to pretty much anything on "the internet" and consider that phrase a symptom of useless MBA, PHB, PowerPoint talking points oozing where they don't belong, sorry — you'll probably have to endure it for a while yet. Nerval's Lobster writes that Gartner's 2012 Hype Cycle of Emerging Technologies says that "Cloud computing" (along with a few other terms, such as "Near Field Communication" and "media tablets") is not just alive but growing.
"Gartner uses the report to monitor the rise, maturity and decline of certain terms and concepts, the better for corporate strategists and planners to predict how things will trend over the next few months or years. As part of the report, Gartner's analysts have built a Hype Cycle which positions technologies on a graph tracing their rise, overexposure, inevitable fall, and eventual rehabilitation as quiet, productive, well-integrated, thoroughly un-buzz-worthy technologies. Right now, Gartner views hybrid cloud computing, Big Data, crowdsourcing, and the 'Internet of Things' as on the rise, while private cloud computing, social analytics and the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) phenomenon are coasting at the Peak of Inflated Expectations."
Slashdot needs to update their text for buzzword compliance. Instead of "submitting" comments to Slashdot, it should indicate that I'm "syncing comments to the cloud."
There's no -1 for "I don't get it."
These guys publish anything so you can remember to here them when you want a third party to prove what you believe in. Useless shills for hire, fuck Gartner.
Silly newb. This is a slashvertizement from Gartner.
This would promote synergy in the global open source ecosystem causing upward mobility of natural language and ultimately a paradigm shift.
As an MBA, I'd like to say that you made me cum!
Off to change my shorts.
Gartner Buzzword Tracker Says "Buzzword" Still On Hype Wave
riding chill waves of condensed water
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I kind of think "The cloud" at least in corporate terms, is entering a second life now. When it first came about, it was a lot of hype and nonsense. And I saw a lot of Execs getting excited about it and moving services to it. Over the years I've seen them realize the pitfalls of the services. Poor support, major security issues, unpredictable downtime relating to hardware issues we have no way of knowing about. But now I've seen it coming into it's own with the execs realizing that it IS good for some things. Your support site? Sure! Even if your whole company goes to shit it's still up. Your billing database? NOOOO...
s/cloud/clown
makes reading stories about "clown gaming", "clown storage", and anything else they put in the clown much more interesting.
I put on my robe and wizard hat..
May I recommend a new ophthalmologist?
Nerval's Lobster writes that Gartner's 2012 Hype Cycle of Emerging Technologies says that "Cloud computing" (along with a few other terms, such as "Near Field Communication" and "media tablets") is not just alive but growing.
Bio questions? Ask me to start a Q&A journal. Computer analogies available for most topics!
Way back when if we would just make our apps CORBA compliant they would all magically integrate with no human effort whatsoever? And then XML promised the same?
Now, apparently if we go with cloud computing, the desktops and LANs will magically maintain themselves for no discernible reason, apparently.
I thought Wave was dead.
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While the cloud irks me, digital just makes me want to choke someone
"you can get this computer generated in both DVD AND DIGITAL!!!"
"now available for digital download!!!"
and on and on and on
And now there is the on-premises cloud.
The Onion seems to share the "hype" assessment:
HP Offers 'That Cloud Thing Everyone Is Talking About'
Thank you, Edward Snowden.
"Arguments from authority are worthless." —Carl Sagan
Words mean something; they are shorthand labels that encapsulate concepts, so we don't have to spell everything out all the time.
For example:
Cloud Computing = Running your software and storing your data on a computer that you do not own and cannot control
So instead of boring my listener to death with "My business runs its software and stores its data on a computer we do not own and cannot control", I can simply say, "My business uses cloud computing."
Isn't that so much nicer?
They believe, these new editor folks, in buzzwords. They even know that Gartner is bought and paid for. Yet they'll run this drivel, as Gartner has the fat corporate market by the short-hairs. The juiciest of juice, all dripping, following every sparrow fart Gartner utters. It's somewhat revolting. Ok, really revolting.
In actuality, nothing happens because Gartner believes it will, only by coincidence will a prediction come true. Otherwise, we'd be using OS/2, and using our screen-pop phones from Lucent, headed by Carly Fiorina! It's a sad state of affairs, folks.
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His name wasn't included initially. Also, he's not a slashdot user, the link for his name goes to his geek.com email address.
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anyone that has been around knows that "cloud" is just a marketing term for mainframes.
Nerdgasm!
It's not as stupid as it sounds. The goal is to separate the administration of the physical hardware and the applications. The IT admins in the data center just maintain the servers and don't know or care what applications are running on them. The application admins in the office just maintain the application and don't know or care what servers it's running on.
Software as a service is nothing but a bloody business model based upon extortion. Can't afford to pay your fees, or your service provider goes out of business and you're completely hosed.
Two of my imaginary friends reproduced once
"Has Slashdot sunk so low that their submission queue has run dry?"
Slashdot will never run dry. Here's the submission queue:
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"This post is an artistic work of fiction and falsehood. Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact."
It's true that he doesn't appear to be a Slashdot user (mysterious noises here), but I'm pretty sure it's standard that the link goes to an e-mail address.
Bio questions? Ask me to start a Q&A journal. Computer analogies available for most topics!
his name goes to his geek.com email address.
Actually.. it's geek.net, ie the company that owns slashdot
http://geek.net/
I don't want clouds! I want sun!
Is the trademark "Sun" free already?
If Pandora's box is destined to be opened, *I* want to be the one to open it.
Near Field Communication is a buzzword? And here I thought that unlike "cloud", NFC referred to an actual technology with very specific implementation and use cases. I will join the choir here wondering why the technical knowledge of editors and submitters seems to be dropping precipitously.
I personally back up everything in my Wearable Personal Private Cloud (WPPC). The WPPC is amazing It can hold many GB's, is cheap for limited space but with a bit of money you can get a lot more space! The transfer speeds are amazing and I can access all my could data wherever I am as long as there is a computer, because it is the cloud it is always with me. It also has enhanced security an privacy features because it can be taken offline whenever I like it to be. In the old days the WPPC would be called a USB stick but that is just old! I hate it when the cloud label gets stuck on everything. A simple cluster with two nodes is now a cloud. Heck even a single synology nas with no reduncancy is now a cloud http://www.synology.com/support/video_your_cloud.php?lang=us In the old days it would be port forwarding not it is a cloud.
True story.
"Ride the hype wave, wipe-out!
The mind conceives, the body achieves, the spirit manifests.
Well, I think so. It should be updated as well as upgraded for better appearance. it should also be organized.