Cloud Computing
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Supercloudifragilisticexpialidocious II: Questions Remain
Tl:dr: “supercloud” is still not a thing that you could pick out of a police lineup A note to readers regarding relevance: this post is extremely niche, is most applicable for bored cloud people with an interest in alternative universe ontologies, and who are probably iced in and/or avoiding a pandemic surge (or both, like…
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Supercloudifragilisticexpialidocious
Tl;dr The “supercloud” is still not a thing I recently argued the term “supercloud” was super mostly in the sense of being super vague and that “an industry drowning in jargon needs a higher bar for new terminology”. A plea for a crisper definition followed: The sultans of “supercloud” have responded. Characteristically, the latest “supercloud”…
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The Cloudless Cloud Company
So, “superclouds”, eh? The term seems to have been coined by SiliconAngle, almost as an aside, in a subtitle, accompanied by the briefest of definitions: A new cloud architecture takes shape: “superclouds” Today, any company can have a fully built-out platform in the cloud. Venture capitalist Jerry Chen of Greylock Partners calls this phenomenon “castles…