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New Term: “Dark Cloud”

9 points by tkyjonathan ↗ HN
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."

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zafar1
Is this an actual thing?
QuinnyPig
Nobody calls it that or has ever called it that.
[dead] foolzcrow
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
neuroticfish
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.

[dead] foolzcrow
Dark 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.
gitgud
I thought this would be about cloud providers who use Dark Patterns...
RaceWon
Possibly 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.
lelandgaunt
A 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.