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."
New Term: “Dark Cloud”
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Re: New Term: “Dark Cloud”
#2Is this an actual thing?
Re: New Term: “Dark Cloud”
#3Is this an actual thing?
Nobody calls it that or has ever called it that.
Re: New Term: “Dark Cloud”
#4Is this an actual thing?
Seems more like reusing common terms. I work with both publically and privately deployed cloud systems Both work well and have their own specific purposes,advantages,and short comings. "a dark cloud lomming over" is a very old saying
Re: New Term: “Dark Cloud”
#5Dark cloud in IT terms would be a "cloud" hidden from the clearnet, hence the dark part of the name. It would be a cloud in cypherspace not clearnet/surface web.
Re: New Term: “Dark Cloud”
#6Is this an actual thing?
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.
Re: New Term: “Dark Cloud”
#7I thought this would be about cloud providers who use Dark Patterns...
Re: New Term: “Dark Cloud”
#8I sense a story there, tkyjonathan, care to share?
Re: New Term: “Dark Cloud”
#9Possibly 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.
Re: New Term: “Dark Cloud”
#10A 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.