The late great Billie Holiday once sang, “Don’t know why there’s no sun up in the sky… .” For the heroine in Billie’s song, the absence of solar visibility was due to she and “her man” not being together, but per a recent article I read, for more and more companies it’s due to too many clouds. Yes folks, our enthusiasm for all things cloud may be causing things to get a little unwieldy.
Apparently, the roots of the problem are a combination of a multitude of cloud offerings — to paraphrase the Irish bard Bono, “pretty soon, everybody got one”— and the old miscalculation espoused by junkies everywhere, “if one is good, two must be better… .” The end result, according to the article, is a situation becoming so prevalent that it now has been given its own name, cloud sprawl. Now on the sprawl scale this ranks way below something like we saw in the movie, Invasion of the Body Snatchers — sprawl doesn’t get any worse than aliens taking over the bodies of everyone in the world — but it’s still probably better to nip this one in the bud before it really gets out of hand.