Stop hype: Eliminate three cloud computing terminology

In the past October, a speaker at the Interop conference in New York clearly stated that the hype behind cloud computing was still spreading and there was no sign of ending. I guess most of us don't complain. Cloud computing brings fresh announcements for it and IT services. However, hype can lead to confusion, most of them asking for trouble,

To solve this problem, there are some cloud computing words that make me crazy. I heard them more than once, like chalk slipping over the blackboard, making people uncomfortable. I'm going to list these words here, and I think most people would want to scold me.

1, "Cloud" (Cloud enabled). "Cloud" is the first word I want to point out. What does that mean? Does that mean your application can run in the cloud? Or does it mean leveraging the infrastructure as a service (IaaS) or the natural attributes of a platform, a service (PaaS), such as a Web service or API? may mean that your IT environment is optimized to fit the elastic properties of the cloud computing platform, such as being able to use the automatic allocation mechanism?

Cloud applications, devices, plug-ins, or other technologies often mean that vendors sell such applications, devices or plug-ins, and they want to label their products as overly hyped cloud computing, but they don't want to do any work or invest any money. Again, I want to "be rich." "I need someone to give me millions of.

2. Open Cloud. "We can push the" open cloud "concept back, that is, the source code is actually open, and you're just locking yourself in an ecological environment. The correct term should be "open class cloud (Kind-of-open Cloud)".

I suspect that, like the cloud, the open cloud is a product of the present, like other words, "Open systems", "Open-source", and so on. Most IT professionals, including me, didn't hear it 20 times a day from 2003 to 2004, and I had to do some private investigator work to see if the technology was really open. Over the next few years, I feel that the open cloud faces the same challenges now OpenStack and Cloudstack rage.

3. "Cloud" (The Cloud). The term "cloud computing" is bad enough, too broad a definition, so it's hard to know what people really mean. The people who use "the cloud" are typically in the IT field and they create more confusion. What does "the cloud" mean? Now, for most businesses there are countless things. So when the cloud appears in the IT Pros ' discussion, I have to block what it means to define it, because the definition in the same room is different.

There are more ways to make people unhappy in cloud computing, and they will create new words, overuse and nonsense. Then I will point out to you.