Silliest IT buzzword ever - "the Cloud"

[Moscow Mule]

Blue-sky thinking.

Grrrrr.

[OwlHoot]

Mini makers were talking about "clouds" and "dashboards" in the early 80s.

"plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose"

[TimberWolf]

Blue-sky thinking.

Surely Cloud is the opposite of Blue sky?

[Crusoe101]

Thought Leadership is by far the best.

I attended a (permie) management seminar for one of the UK big banks and the presenter the CIO advised we needed to demonstrate this.

When I asked him to define this he almost fell off his podium and it provided much entertainment

[rootsnall]

"Digital Dashboard"

That one (for some reason) really grates with me.

The completely techo illiterate 'IT Manager' here keeps talking about 'dashboards' and 'cockpits'

Maybe I'll give my CV a bit of a "Digital Dashboard" makeover

[Spacecadet]

The Cloud is a beta version of SkyNet

[ratewhore]

Isn't it just meaning when all your data is stored in the web, and you have the convenience of accessing it slowly and unreliably?

WHS

[Mich the Tester]

They have posters around here that say ‘Transformation has just become a verb’.

How much bulltulip can a person take?

[Purple Dalek]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing

Isn't it just meaning when all your data is stored in the web, and you have the convenience of accessing it slowly and unreliably?

Can you tell I like old-fashioned desktop applications

But Google promise three nines availability, which is higher than you get locally from even your ms browser, never mind something complex like outlook.

So of it's a no-brainer choice for managment.

Boomed!

[TimberWolf]

I'm waiting for Cloud 9.0 to come out.