May the Seuss-Off Begin…

Just in time to celebrate the birthday of Dr. Seuss (of which any Google user was made aware yesterday), blogger Christopher Hoff has penned a Seussian paean to the hotter than hot technology du jour, cloud computing. The poem goes on for over 20 stanzas, and covers immense ground by comparing this craze with the promises of those multiple slicer/dicers that fill up the screen on the home shopping channel.

In spite of its breeziness, in the end the poem brings up a more serious message:

“It’s profoundly game changing

and as long as we focus

and don’t buy into the

hyped hocus pocus

So before we end up
with a Cloud that ‘slices and dices’
that never gets dull,
mashes, grates, grinds and rices

It’s important to state

what problem we’re solving

so the Cloud doesn’t end up

with its value de-evolving”

Hats off to this clever poem. And now, here, for your viewing pleasure is my stab at some verse in much the same style:

In a land faraway called the Valley of Sil
Lived the people they called the old Ventu Capitils

These folks they were known from Dubai to Madras
As the givers of gold for compression in NAS

Not to mention a whole lot of techy innovations
And for the best of them all there’s a standing ovation.

The Valley of Sil is a land like no other
Said Cindy Lou Who and her venturesome brother

We must go to this place
And find out how we can squeeze more out of our disk space

We need someone who understands our expenses are growing
There’s OpEx and CapEx I mean I ain’t fooling

So they found a new URL and tracked down Mr. Murli
Who said I’ll increase your capacity fully

I’m compressing your disk space from 100 to 10
I’m putting all kinds of new spaces right in

And so Cindy Lou Who started a-dancin the macarena
And gave lots of thanks to the amazing Ocarina.