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Buzzword Bingo and Acronym Update V2.011

Guest post by: Greg Schulz

Article Overview: R U (e.g. Are you) JASSD about JACD or do you have a case of JAID and JACBUS? Will RAID RAIN on your cloud parade? For those who like to keep up on buzzwords (for buzzword bingo) and acronyms, perhaps even FTW (e.g. For the Win), here are some old and new, fun and real ones to ponder.

Buzzword Bingo and Acronym Update V2.011

R U (e.g. Are you) JASSD about JACD or do you have a case of JAID and JACBUS? Will RAID RAIN on your cloud parade?

For those who like to keep up on buzzwords (for buzzword bingo) and acronyms, perhaps even FTW (e.g. For the Win), here are some old and new, fun and real ones to ponder.

As to which are real or new, fun or old, I will leave that up to you.

BD = Business Development or Big Data or Backup Device

CEO = Chief Evangelist Officer or Change Everything Often

CJO = Chief Jailable Officer or anyone who is a legal Chief of a company

CMO = Creative Movie Officer or Chief Marketing Officer (same thing)

CNOC = Cloud network operations center

CPOP = Cloud point of presence aka cloud gateway, cloud appliance, cloud middle ware, cloud shims

DC = Direct Current or Diet Coke or Data Center

DTDS+ = Disaster Tolerant Disk Subsystem (Plus)

EMC = Entertaining Movie Creations

HP = Has printers and PCs

IBM = Itty Bitty Machine company or I Buy Mainframes

iHop = International House of pancakes or iPhone bouncing on floor

JACBUS = Just Another Cloud Backup Service

JACD = Just Another Cloud Device

JAFD = Just Another Flash Device

JAiD = Just Another iSCSI Device or Just Another iProduct Device

JAM = Producer of Tree size SRM tools or a U.S. concert promoter

JASSD = Just Another SSD

MIA = Missing In Action or airport code for Miami International Airport

MSP = My Storage Please or Minneapolis St. Paul Airport code

NetApp = Neat effective technology And product portfolio

PIROMA = Ask someone you know who has been in capacity planning

RAID = Redundant Array of Independent Disks or bug spray

RAIN = Redundant Array of Independent Nodes or something that falls from the clouds

RPD = Revenue prevention department: Groups, entities or management layers that get in the way of getting results done

Truth Squads = Teams representing various vendors or organizations that try to get you to see things their way

WATN = Where Are They Now: Former vendors or service providers that are now MIA

XaaS = Plug in what ever you like for X as a Service

Ok, nuff said and fun for now

Cheers

Gs

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