{"id":2724,"date":"2012-07-19T13:23:15","date_gmt":"2012-07-19T13:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.journeytothecloud.com\/?p=2031"},"modified":"2012-07-19T13:23:15","modified_gmt":"2012-07-19T13:23:15","slug":"fun-with-neologism-in-the-cloud-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/fun-with-neologism-in-the-cloud-era\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun with Neologism in the Cloud Era"},"content":{"rendered":"

Having spent the last several blog posts<\/a> on more serious considerations about cloud computing and the new IT era, I decided to lighten things up a bit.\u00a0 The term \u201ccloud\u201d has bothered me from the first time I heard it uttered, as the concept and definition are as nebulous as, well a cloud.\u00a0 In the intervening years, when thoroughly boring my wife and friends with shop talk about the \u201ccloud,\u201d I came to realize that in order for cloud computing to become mainstream, \u201cit\u201d needs to have some way to translate to the masses. <\/span><\/p>\n

Neologism is the process of creating new words using existing or combinations of existing words to form a more descriptive term.\u00a0 In our industry neologisms have been used extensively, although many of us do not realize how these terms got coined.\u00a0 For example, the word \u201cblog\u201d is a combination of web and log.\u00a0 \u201cBlog\u201d was formed over time as the lexicon was adopted.\u00a0 It began with a new form of communicating across the Internet, known as a web log.\u00a0 \u201cWeb log\u201d become \u201cwe blog\u201d simply by moving the space between words one to the left.\u00a0 Now, regardless of who you talk to, the term \u201cblog\u201d is pretty much a fully formed concept.\u00a0 Similarly, the term \u201cInternet\u201d is a combination of \u201cinter\u201d (between) and \u201cnetwork\u201d, hence meaning between networks.<\/p>\n

Today, the term \u201ccloud\u201d has become so overused that confusion reigns (get it?) over everyone. <\/p>\n

Cloudable \u2013 meaning something that is conducive to leveraging cloud.\u00a0 As in:\u00a0 \u201cMy CRM application is cloudable \u201c or \u201cWe want to leverage data protection that includes cloudable capabilities\u201d<\/p>\n

Cloudiac – someone who is a huge proponent of cloud services.\u00a0 A combination of \u201cCloud\u201d and \u201cManiac\u201d, as in:\u00a0 \u201cThere were cloudiacs everywhere at Interop<\/a>. \u201c\u00a0 In the not too distant future, we very well may see parallels to the \u201cTrekkie\u201d phenomena.\u00a0 Imagine a bunch of middle-aged IT professionals running around in costumes made of giant cotton-balls and cardboard lightning bolts.<\/p>\n

Cloudologist \u2013 an expert in cloud solutions.\u00a0 Different from a Cloudiac, the Cloudologist actually has experience in developing and utilizing cloud based services.\u00a0\u00a0 This will lead to master\u2019s degree programs in Cloudology.<\/p>\n

Cloutonomous \u2013\u00a0 maintaining your autonomy over your systems and data in the cloud.\u00a0 \u201cI may be in the Cloud but I make sure I\u2019m cloutonomous.\u201d\u00a0 Could refer to the consumer of the cloud services not being tied into long term services commitments that may inhibit their ability to move services in the event of a vendor failing to hit SLAs.<\/p>\n

Cloud crawl \u2013 actions related to monitoring or reviewing your various cloud services.\u00a0 \u201cI went cloud crawling today and everything was sweet.\u201d Off-take of the common \u201cpub crawl,\u201d just not as fun and with no lingering after-effects.<\/p>\n

Counter-cloud \u2013 a reference to the concept of \u201ccounter culture,\u201d which dates back to hippie days of the 60s and 70s.\u00a0 In this application, it would describe a person or business that is against utilizing cloud services mainly because it is the new trend, or because they feel that it\u2019s the latest government conspiracy to control the world.<\/p>\n

Global Clouding \u2013 IT\u2019s version of Global Warming, except in this case the world isn\u2019t becoming uninhabitable, IT is just becoming a bit fuzzy around the edges.\u00a0 What will IT be like with the advent of Global Clouding?<\/p>\n

Clackers \u2013 Cloud and Hacker.\u00a0 Clackers are those nefarious, shadowy figures that focus on disruption of cloud services.\u00a0 This \u201cnew\u201d form of hacker will concentrate on capturing data in transit, traffic disruption\/re-direction (i.e. DNS Changer anyone?), and platform incursion.<\/p>\n

Because IT is so lexicon heavy, building up a stable of Cloud-based terminology is inevitable, and potentially beneficial in focusing the terminology further.\u00a0 Besides, as Cloudiacs will be fond of saying\u2026 \u201cresistance is futile.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Do you have any Neologisms of your own? I\u2019d love to hear some!<\/p>\n

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Having spent the last several blog posts on more serious considerations about cloud computing and the new IT era, I decided to lighten things up a bit.\u00a0 The term \u201ccloud\u201d has bothered me from the first time I heard it uttered, as the concept and definition are as nebulous as, well a cloud.\u00a0 In the…Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-2724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cloud-computing","tag-cloud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2724","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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}