Faux Cloud

Posted on Feb 28, 2017 by Simon
All seems real, ...until you pull back the curtains. The wizard of silicon valley is still at it. If you can't make it, might as well fake it.

Too many companies are labeling themselves as the cloud which is just disingenuous and does nothing but confuse the public.

  • If you host your application on Amazon or Rackspace, that does not automatically qualify you as the cloud. Legitimacy by association is a fallacy.
  • If you upgrade users A-to-M one day, and N-to-Z the next, that does not automatically qualify you as the cloud. All users are on the same version, at the same time.
  • If you make users download the application locally, that does not automatically qualify you as the cloud. The whole reason is to keep it up in the cloud and find it there.
  • If each user has their own tablespace, that does not automatically qualify you as the cloud. Clouds change in shape and size with no defined limits.

So don't be fooled by these companies jumping on the bandwagon and labeling themselves as the "cloud" by simply touching up legacy stacks with a new coat of paint. We need to have these services cloud authenticated or just call them out for pure fakery.

 Cheers!


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