The Case for Multiple Clouds

I'll be the first to admit that I have always been a bit persnickety when it comes to language, especially in the technology world. In fact, I penned Message Not Received in part as a form of linguistic catharsis. In my defense, I'm hardly the first person to realize that writing costs much less than than therapy.

That book details how the tsunami of business jargon is overwhelming folks at work. Neologisms, forced portmanteaus, backcronyms, and new buzzwords permeate the business landscape these days, but it gets even worse: Many people struggle trying to discern what even ostensibly simple and commonly "understood" tech terms actually mean.

Case in point: "the cloud." As I've said many times, there is single "cloud" any more than there is one app or database.

Welcome to the Multi-Cloud World