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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. 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.

  3. 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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    Thank you, Edward Snowden.

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  4. 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?