Cloudocalypse » cloudocalypse http://www.cloudocalypse.com Coming soon..? Sun, 11 Oct 2015 12:48:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.3.1 http://www.cloudocalypse.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/cropped-cloudocalypse-32x32.jpg » cloudocalypse http://www.cloudocalypse.com 32 32 What is cloudocalypse? http://www.cloudocalypse.com/2015/10/10/cloudocalypse/ http://www.cloudocalypse.com/2015/10/10/cloudocalypse/#comments Sat, 10 Oct 2015 18:16:16 +0000 http://www.cloudocalypse.com/?p=4 Continue reading What is cloudocalypse?]]> What is the cloudocalypse?

Cloudocalypse is ususally defined as a catastrophic failure of a cloud (let’s leave cloud definition aside for now).

How catastrophic is up to your imagination – it can be anything from your gmail not working for a few days to total collapse of western civilization. There have been several cases of a small cloudocalypse already, but either the impact was small or the duration was short.

Oddly enough, the ancient greek ending -calypse literally means concealed, veiled, hidden or even “cloud covered”. (And the apo- prefix means from/take away, so apocalypse is basically a removal of a veil, re-velation.) But as in Irangate or the current VW Dieselgate, new words are not created in a linguistically logical manner.

 

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