{"id":10480,"date":"2014-04-01T03:54:16","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T03:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2014\/apr\/01\/outer-space-storage-northern-bytes-best-cloudy-april-fool-stories\/"},"modified":"2014-04-01T03:54:16","modified_gmt":"2014-04-01T03:54:16","slug":"from-outer-space-storage-to-the-northern-bytes-the-best-cloudy-april-fool-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/from-outer-space-storage-to-the-northern-bytes-the-best-cloudy-april-fool-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"From outer space storage to the \u2018Northern Bytes\u2019: The best cloudy April Fool stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&rsquo;s a tradition as old as the hills, from the BBC&rsquo;s scoop on spaghetti trees in 1957 to Google&rsquo;s Pokemon Maps earlier today. Not surprisingly the hype around cloud has prompted a few firms to try their own spoof stories on April Fool&#8217;s Day. Here are three of <em>CloudTech&rsquo;s<\/em> favourites.<\/p>\n<p>Digital Science, a technology division of Macmillan Science and Education, posted worrying findings this morning that &ldquo;the computing cloud is drifting towards the North Pole.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>In a blog post entitled &lsquo;Cloud computing suffers a major blow&rsquo;, the company has evidence to suggest that &ldquo;global warming and the changes thus caused in the Jet Stream pose a danger to &lsquo;the cloud&rsquo;.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Further disturbing reports are emerging about problems being created by unidentified data objects (UDOs) saturating &lsquo;the cloud&rsquo;,&rdquo; the post reads. &ldquo;This saturation could possibly result in difficulties with data storage.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>If this hasn&rsquo;t tipped &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&rsquo;s a tradition as old as the hills, from the BBC&rsquo;s scoop on spaghetti trees in 1957 to Google&rsquo;s Pokemon Maps earlier today. Not surprisingly the hype around cloud has prompted a few firms to try their own spoof stories on April Fool&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}