In the spirit of the holidays (which ever holidays you prefer), here’s a bit lighter posting (rest assured, there are plenty of upcoming more technology focused postings in the works) about what many folks in the northern hemisphere are either dreading and dealing with, or, enjoying this time of the year and that is SNOW.
From the deserts of Las Vegas NV to New England, from Canada to Texas and most points in between and that’s just in the U.S., its that time of the year for SNOW (while friends from Oz remind me its summer down under this time of the year).
With that in mind and knowing how IT or other tech savvy folks enjoy or depend on the use of acronyms, buzzwords and so forth, here are some reworked terms in the spirit of the northern hemisphere winter season. You might want to down load "Valley Winter Song" (e.g. the song from the LL Bean commercials) rom Fountains Of Wayne via Amazon.com or some other venue if you have not done so to enjoy with your snow or working on your holiday shopping list.
Some acronyms include among others:
Backup Target – Where a lot of shoppers are waiting in line or stuck in traffic
Backup – Getting out of a snow bank, stuck in traffic, what the snow plows do sometimes
Battery backup – Spare or extra batteries to put into all of those new toys and gadgets
BC – Before Cold sets in
Best practices – How to use the snow removable equipment
Bus driver – person driving the metric transit bus full of holiday shoppers and revelers
Capacity planning – figuring out where to pile up the snow
Chain of events – Car driver on cell phone, Car hits ice, car slides into another car, chain reaction accident
Cloud – where the snow comes from
Cluster – Many cars piled up together stuck in traffic, nothing moving, see gridlock
Compress – Pile the snow up, let it settle
DAS – Direct Attached Snowplow
DR – Doctor to go see for your cold or back ache from shoveling snow or too much holiday cheer
Fibre Channel – How to get the weather channel on local cable
Global warming – What those dealing with snow might like to see a bit of right now
Generator – Essential equipment for geek’s and techno folks
Green – What the snow is now covering on the golf courses in much of the northern hemisphere colder areas
Grid – how the traffic highways are plugged with stopped cars and holiday shoppers
Grid lock – Encryption and security for grids or traffic jams
Hardware- Snow removable equipment
ILM – iPhone Loves Multimedia
InfiniBand – Giant bow around holiday presents
iPhone – I will call you latter
iSCSI – What some are referring to the slippery and dirty roads today
MSP – Managed snow removal professionals, or the Minneapolis / St. Paul Airport where holiday travelers may be stranded
Need Another Shovel (NAS)
Networking – Talking with your neighbors
NFS – Nevada Fresh Snow
North pole – Future location for Google to keep their storage and reduce cooling costs
Offline – Power outage or, snow plow gets stuck
Offsite – where the snow gets moved too
Online – where most snow bound holiday shoppers should be shopping instead of being stuck in the snow
Optics – Evening light shows during holiday parades
Outsourcing – Have someone else remove the snow
PC ? Payment Card
PCI – Payment card industry that is busy this time of the year processing credit card transactions
POS – Point of sale, plain old shovel
Provisioning – going to the store and stocking up on food, fuel and other essentials
RAID – Remove All Ice Daily
RAIN – Snow before it freezes
Removable Media – Chasing the news crew off your property after the nightly light show
Replication – Repeated snow storms in a row
ROI – Remove old Ice
SAS = Sleds and Snow
SANd = Stuff at the beach in the summer, stuff on the road in the winter time
SPAM – Hormel product
SATA – Santa without an "n"
Shipping tapes – How 3M gets tape from their factories to you for gift wrapping
Single instance – Rare snowstorm like what happened in Las Vegas
SLED – snow sled with a disk Dedupe – Let the snow piles shrink
Slide ware – Picture on the wall of a nice tropical warm place while the snowstorm is outside
Snapshot – Picture of the snow on a tree Restore – When the power comes back on
SNOW – Storage Networking Organizations West or, Storage Networking outsource World
Software – What goes in the Wii or play station during a snowstorm (if you have power)
Spanning tree – very big tree with lots of snow on it
SRM – Snow removable management, or, Sunday Rolls into Monday
Standby power – Waiting on the phone for the power company to answer during an outage
Tape – What 3M makes to wrap presents with
Tiered servers – Wait staff at a restraunt
Tiered storage – How snow is piled to maximize space
Tweet – What takes place on twitter or perhaps from eating too much sweets
UPS – The people in the brown trucks bringing things from Amazon and others
Have a safe and happy holiday season and enjoy the snow while you can.
Ok, nuff said.
Cheers gs
Greg Schulz – Author Cloud and Virtual Data Storage Networking (CRC Press), The Green and Virtual Data Center (CRC Press) and Resilient Storage Networks (Elsevier)
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