New Term: “Dark Cloud”

Posted by tkyjonathan on Thursday November 07, 2019 @07:06AM
from the self-post dept.

Definition: A company moved to a cloud provider in a rush without fully understanding its advantages and without fully understanding the company's own disadvantages. The results are a catastrophic disruption to the company and a heavy financial cost. Example: "We tried to move to AWS and now a dark cloud is hanging over us." "Trying to make your own private cloud with X technology is just a dark cloud."

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Re:New Term: “Dark Cloud” by gitgud on Thursday November 07, 2019 @04:44PM (#21477637)

I thought this would be about cloud providers who use Dark Patterns...

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Re:New Term: “Dark Cloud” by lelandgaunt on Friday November 08, 2019 @03:05PM (#21486152)

A company deploying any kind of setup, cloud or not, while handling sensitive client data without having done any sort of risk assessment and due diligence is simply negligent and is a sitting duck. This does not require a fancy new term.

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Re:New Term: “Dark Cloud” by RaceWon on Friday November 08, 2019 @05:36AM (#21481149)

Possibly these folks think it's clever (tis a touch) to refer to problems with the cloud as being a dark cloud... like a dark cloud on the horizon.

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Re:New Term: “Dark Cloud” by thedevindevops on Friday November 08, 2019 @03:36AM (#21480738)

I sense a story there, tkyjonathan, care to share?

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Re:New Term: “Dark Cloud” by zafar1 on Thursday November 07, 2019 @07:08AM (#21472438)

Is this an actual thing?

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Re:New Term: “Dark Cloud” by neuroticfish on Thursday November 07, 2019 @01:47PM (#21476046)

The term? No.

Companies rushing to adopt technology or migrate to platforms without understanding the full scope of the consequences? Happens every day and is happening across the hall from me right now.

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Re:New Term: “Dark Cloud” by QuinnyPig on Thursday November 07, 2019 @08:29AM (#21472951)

Nobody calls it that or has ever called it that.

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