Jeff Barr, Cloudbursting – Hybrid Application Hosting

I could have come up with some kind of lifeless and forgettable acronym, but that’s not my style. I proposed cloudbursting in a meeting a month or two ago and everyone seemed to like it.

I really like Jeff Barr and usually agree with his observations, but this time I think he missed the boat…er cloud. The term cloudburst doesn’t really describe a hybrid model at all. And it has a negative connotation. And it’s already been used in the blogosphere to describe what happens when your cloud is unavailable.

Remember Microsoft’s Hailstorm? Not a good name either. Still, I can see why Jeff didn’t want to just slap an ordinary acronym on the concept. Hybrid Application Hosting. HAH?

We need to put on our thinking caps and help him out.