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Gartner Buzzword Tracker Says "Cloud Computing" Still on Hype Wave

Posted by timothy on from the distingush-from-internet-kthxbye dept.

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."

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  1. Buzzword compliance by MrEricSir · · Score: 4, Funny

    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."

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    1. Re:Buzzword compliance by GoodNewsJimDotCom · · Score: 4, Funny

      This would promote synergy in the global open source ecosystem causing upward mobility of natural language and ultimately a paradigm shift.

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    2. Re:Buzzword compliance by lister+king+of+smeg · · Score: 3, Funny

      for web 2.0 cloud compliance all mods are to be replaced with "like"

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  2. Talk dirty to me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    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.

    1. Re:Talk dirty to me by Frosty+Piss · · Score: 2

      As an MBA, I'd like to say that you made me cum!

      So, "as an MBA", who's mouth were you cumming in?

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  3. It's a good word... by Charliemopps · · Score: 2, Insightful

    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...

    1. Re:It's a good word... by ackthpt · · Score: 2

      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...

      Our present experience with it - users are hampered by their work. Clouds overloaded and unresponsive. Effectively it's not a hugely useful tool, yet. I suppose it will get better, as soon as someone is making some money at it and competition takes it's work seriously, rather than just being "Me, too!"

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  4. in the clown... by MaerD · · Score: 2, Funny

    s/cloud/clown
    makes reading stories about "clown gaming", "clown storage", and anything else they put in the clown much more interesting.

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    1. Re:in the clown... by PPH · · Score: 2

      Is this a nice, friendly clown? Or a Steven King clown, like IT?

      Hmm, an IT angle here. I wonder how far one could write a white paper on the use of Cloud Computing as being a "penny wise" move for the company before someone catches on?

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    2. Re:in the clown... by MaerD · · Score: 2

      We all float down here, in the clown.

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  5. Anyone remember by sjames · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

  6. Re:Hype Wave? by pegasustonans · · Score: 2

    Ooooh! Now I understand! It's a paradigm shift!

    I can see how you'd think that, but It's actually a discourse related to the cognitive dissonance inherent to the post-modern influx of cultural normativity.

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  7. The Onion by cffrost · · Score: 4, Funny

    The Onion seems to share the "hype" assessment:

    HP Offers 'That Cloud Thing Everyone Is Talking About'

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  8. Words Mean Something by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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?

  9. what about the word "mainframe" by Dan667 · · Score: 2

    anyone that has been around knows that "cloud" is just a marketing term for mainframes.

  10. More often called a private cloud by Fred+Ferrigno · · Score: 2

    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.

  11. To hell with the cloud by Nethemas+the+Great · · Score: 2

    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.

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