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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