14th Dec will be announcement of this year's Washies, annual award given to the worst offenders of painting over traditional IT technology with the word cloud, even though it offers little-to-none of the benefits that cloud computing brings to be announced. Similar to the Razzies, the Cloud Washies Ceremony is to make harmless fun and tease the cloud vendors, and just to say " What were they thinking?"
I will update you tomorrow with Washies Winners.For the time being read the excellent write-up in Information Week -- 5 Worst Cloud Washers Of 2011. The write appropriately points out, "Many vendors want to be cloud vendors. The cloud has come to connote flexibility, scalability, and economy of scale. Wouldn't you want those attributes to be on your side when you're trying to make the sale? There's just one problem. Despite the fact that some parts of the cloud are loosely defined, not everybody is bringing products to market worthy of the name "cloud." As a matter of fact, there's a lot of cloud washing--renaming existing products, after a few tweaks, with the word cloud insert.
I will update you tomorrow with Washies Winners.For the time being read the excellent write-up in Information Week -- 5 Worst Cloud Washers Of 2011. The write appropriately points out, "Many vendors want to be cloud vendors. The cloud has come to connote flexibility, scalability, and economy of scale. Wouldn't you want those attributes to be on your side when you're trying to make the sale? There's just one problem. Despite the fact that some parts of the cloud are loosely defined, not everybody is bringing products to market worthy of the name "cloud." As a matter of fact, there's a lot of cloud washing--renaming existing products, after a few tweaks, with the word cloud insert.
