The Cloud Consultant Spares No One

Written by Alex Williams / October 6, 2009 11:04 PM / 11 Comments

A hypothetical discussion between a cloud consultant and his client that is just too good not be posted on this late Tuesday night. Just be forewarned - this is NSFW.

No one is spared by "the consultant":

"No one knows what is going on. Not even Gartner. Especially Gartner."

"CloudCamp is just a bunch of vendors getting pissed, eating pizza and comparing the size of their case studies."

"And what is this about Microsoft. They are considered to be one of the four big cloud providers and they are about as cloudy as Steve Ballmer is cool."

It goes on. it does strike a chord. The hype about cloud computing is so ripe for satire. Almost as much as socia media - which apparently was the inspiration for this sketch.

The cloud consultant makes his point pretty well about the state of the cloud computing market. Hardly anyone is making any money. Have we not seen this before in our world of over charged tech enthusiasm?

In the meantime, according to the consultant, the only ones making a dime (barely) on cloud computing are a bookseller and a search engine.

"And maybe Salesforce," the consultant says. "And they were cloud before cloud was cloud." ;)

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Sublime!

Posted by: saidimu.wordpress.com | October 7, 2009 12:35 AM

It's there... right there!

Posted by: 3dBloke | October 7, 2009 12:58 AM

OMG, this made me lol first thing in the morning!Thanks to whoever did it..

Posted by: jeux educatifs | October 7, 2009 4:01 AM

wtf is cloud anyway?.... wasn't everything always cloud as far as normal users are concerned?

Posted by: Sandeep | October 7, 2009 4:32 AM

LOL "Cloud may be billed like a utility but consultants will never be free"

AWESOME

Posted by: Martin King | October 7, 2009 4:53 AM

Apart from all the cursing, this is hilarious!

Posted by: Tee hee | October 7, 2009 2:22 PM

That was awesome.

Posted by: anon | October 7, 2009 10:37 PM

Parts of it were cute but parts I couldn't understand at all. Is there a transcript?

Posted by: Cloudcloud | October 8, 2009 9:49 AM

Speaking of videos - you may enjoy this one (we just put it up):

Cloud Cloud Maybe - a parody
http://blogs.vembu.com/2009/10/cloud-cloud-maybe/

It takes off on all the usual suspects - Amazon, Nirvanix, Parascale, Sun Cloud (?), Azure etc - special mention is reserved for Ballmer & Arrington.

Posted by: Lux | October 9, 2009 6:40 PM

What a strange yet funny article :)
Hehe, otherwise it made me laugh :D

Posted by: Free iPod | October 11, 2009 3:39 PM

Many organizations already provide for employees to connect to central data repositories either by VPN or using thin client technology. There's no reason for them to keep any significant data on their laptops/PDAs.

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