Citations:cloudwash

English citations of cloudwash and cloud wash

rebrand a product or service by associating the term "cloud" with it

• 2009 October 14, James Staten, “Cloud Is Defined, Now Stop the Cloudwashing”, in James Staten's Blog‎^[1], Forrester, retrieved 2012-11-05:
• 2011 August, Margaret Rouse, “cloud washing”, in SearchCloudStorage‎^[2], retrieved 2012-11-05:

  Cloud washing (also spelled cloudwashing) is the purposeful and sometimes deceptive attempt by a vendor to rebrand an old product or service by associating the buzzword "cloud" with it.

• 2011 August 31, Stanton Jones, “Cloud-Washed Contracts: You Could Be at Risk”, in ISG‎^[3], retrieved 2012-11-05:

  Buying Cloud-washed software or infrastructure creates risk for both the information technology department and for the organization as a whole.

• 2011 December 13, Charles Babcock, “5 Worst Cloud Washers Of 2011”, in InformationWeek‎^[4], →ISSN, retrieved 2012-11-05:

  As a matter of fact, there's a lot of cloud washing--renaming existing products, after a few tweaks, with the word cloud inserted.

• 2011 December 14, Narinder Singh, “Envelope Please... Announcing the Winners for the 2011 Washies”, in CIO blog‎^[5], Appirio, retrieved 2012-11-05:

  Tonight at a happy hour in San Francisco, Appirio announced and toasted the winners of "The Washies" -- our tongue-in-cheek award given to the worst cloudwashing offenders.

• 2012 July 21, Alex Williams, “Cloudwashing Failed – Now We Need New Metaphors”, in TechCrunch‎^[6], retrieved 2012-11-05:

  The real cloud services providers like Amazon Web Services have won. Cloudwashing has failed.

• 2012 October 16, Barb Darrow, “Why cloud washing is evil, or at least annoying and potentially harmful”, in GigaOM‎^[7], retrieved 2012-11-05:

  Tony Lucas is mad as hell and he’s not going to take it any more. Cloudwashing that is. Lucas, the founder of Flexiant a cloud orchestration vendor, founder says traditional hosting companies and service providers are doing themselves harm by offering the same services they have for a decade or more, but advertising them as “cloud” offerings.

• 2012 October 18, Matt Asay, “Whose cloud is the open-sourciest... Who cares?”, in The Register‎^[8], retrieved 2012-11-05:

  This follows Appirio calling out cloud washing's biggest offenders a year ago, and constant chatter on Twitter about the offense.

• 2012 October 19, David Linthicum, “Customers wait and see as cloud wars rage”, in Infoworld‎^[9], →ISSN, retrieved 2012-11-05:

  The easy response is to ask all the vendors to come together on common standards quickly -- and stop the constant "cloudwashing" and overhyping.

• 2012 October 21, Scott Adams, “10-21-12”, in Dilbert‎^[10], retrieved 2012-11-05:

  Boss: I want you to cloudwash our software.
  Dilbert: Cloudwash?
  Boss: Move some of its functions onto the Internet. But call the Internet a cloud.

• 2012 October 26, Larry Dignan, “Cloud vendors: Who's cloud washing?”, in ZDNet‎^[11], retrieved 2012-11-05:

  The overall aim was distinguish between the cloud washers and the vendors committed to the cause.

• 2012 October 30, Michael Torto, “What A Cloud Is And What A Cloud Isn’t”, in American Business Magazine‎^[12], retrieved 2012-11-05:

  I suppose cloud washing is exactly what you’d expect in a large, frothy market—a hard-coded response to market opportunity.