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New Term: “Dark Cloud”
Definition: A company moved to a cloud provider in a rush without fully understanding its advantages and without fully understanding the company's own disadvantages. The results are a catastrophic disruption to the company and a heavy financial cost.
Example: "We tried to move to AWS and now a dark cloud is hanging over us."
"Trying to make your own private cloud with X technology is just a dark cloud."
- zafar1 7y agoIs this an actual thing?
- QuinnyPig 7y agoNobody calls it that or has ever called it that.
- foolzcrow 7y agoSeems more like reusing common terms. I work with both publically and privately deployed cloud systems Both work well and have their own specific purposes,advantages,and short comings. "a dark cloud lomming over" is a very old saying
- neuroticfish 7y agoThe term? No. Companies rushing to adopt technology or migrate to platforms without understanding the full scope of the consequences? Happens every day and is happening across the hall from me right now.
- foolzcrow 7y agoDark cloud in IT terms would be a "cloud" hidden from the clearnet, hence the dark part of the name. It would be a cloud in cypherspace not clearnet/surface web.
- gitgud 7y agoI thought this would be about cloud providers who use Dark Patterns...
- thedevindevops 7y agoI sense a story there, tkyjonathan, care to share?
- RaceWon 7y agoPossibly these folks think it's clever (tis a touch) to refer to problems with the cloud as being a dark cloud... like a dark cloud on the horizon.
- lelandgaunt 7y agoA company deploying any kind of setup, cloud or not, while handling sensitive client data without having done any sort of risk assessment and due diligence is simply negligent and is a sitting duck. This does not require a fancy new term.