There’s been a lot of hullaboo in the last few years about the current cycle of disruption in IT: Public Cloud, Private Cloud, SDN, DevOps, Everything-as-a-Service… the list goes on and on and every vertical, every field, and every niche is feeling the churn. Every day there is no shortage of opinions “for” and “against” something in tech that is emerging, in decline, or re-emerging. There is one aspect to all of it though that is largely ignored: “The Short ‘t’.”