The uptake of computing
using the cloud,
would make the king of all marketeers
-- Ron Popeil -- proud
He's the guy who came out
with the canned spray on hair,
the oven you set and forget
without care
He had the bass fishing rod
you could fit in your pocket,
the Veg-O-Matic appliance
with which you could chop it
Mr. Microphone, it seems,
was ahead of its time
Karaoke meets Facebook
Oh, how divine!
The smokeless ashtray,
the Cap Snaffler, drain buster
selling you all of the crap
Infomercials could muster
His inventions solved problems
some common, some new
If you ordered them quickly
he might send you two!
Back to the Cloud
and how it's related
to the many wonders
that Sir Ron has created
The cloud fulfills promises
that IT has made:
agility, better service
at a lower pay grade
You can scale up, scale down
pay for just what you use
Elastic infrastructure
what you get's what you choose
We've got public and private,
outside and in,
on-premise, off-premise
thick platforms or thin
The offerings are flooding
the wires en masse
Everything, it now seems,
is some sort of *aaS
You've got infrastructure,
platforms, software and storage.
Integration, SOA
with full vendor whoreage
Some folks equate
virtualization with cloud
The platform providers
shout this vision out loud
'Course the OS contingent
has something to say
that cloud and virt
is part of their play
However you see it,
and whatever its form
the Cloud's getting bigger
it's starting to storm
Raining down on us all
is computational glory
but I wonder, dear friends,
'bout the end of this story
Will the Cloud truly bring value?
Solve problems that matter?
Or is it about
vendors' wallets a-fatter?
*I* think the Cloud
has wonderful promise
If the low-hanging IT fruit
can be lifted 'way from us
The Cloud is a function
that's forging new thought
Pushing the boundaries
and theories we've bought
It's profoundly game changing
and as long as we focus
and don't buy into the
hyped hocus pocus
So before we end up
with a Cloud that "slices and dices"
that never gets dull,
mashes, grates, grinds and rices
It's important to state
what problem we're solving
so the Cloud doesn't end up
with its value de-evolving
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BTW, if you want to see more of my Cloud and Security poems, just check here.