http://blog.gogrid.com/2011/09/01/poll-in-the-cloud-or-on-the-cloud-that-is-the-question-or-is-it/ "Complex Infrastructure Made Easy™" Wed, 22 May 2013 15:20:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://blog.gogrid.com/2011/09/01/poll-in-the-cloud-or-on-the-cloud-that-is-the-question-or-is-it/#comment-19463 James Pray Thu, 06 Oct 2011 07:08:23 +0000 http://blog.gogrid.com/?p=3227#comment-19463 I totally agree….yet the fact that the cloud is just a term….and that it is still somewhere, makes sense to say that it is IN the cloud, but very much "ON" the cloud, because that cloud is somebodies personal, or enterprise level cloud…therefore somebodies stuff is both really, depending on how you refer to it…but over all ON the cloud is correct, as it is a drive of some sort, "in" it just refers to the cloud the stuff is…in fact…ON. Make sense?

]]> http://blog.gogrid.com/2011/09/01/poll-in-the-cloud-or-on-the-cloud-that-is-the-question-or-is-it/#comment-18185 Michael Sheehan Tue, 27 Sep 2011 14:10:43 +0000 http://blog.gogrid.com/?p=3227#comment-18185 Yes, that was the point of the graphic.

]]> http://blog.gogrid.com/2011/09/01/poll-in-the-cloud-or-on-the-cloud-that-is-the-question-or-is-it/#comment-18189 Michael Sheehan Tue, 27 Sep 2011 14:10:23 +0000 http://blog.gogrid.com/?p=3227#comment-18189 Agree. And I'm sure that depending on the language, they may use the term "cloud" or the equivalent word in their own language. I wonder how much that varies.

]]> http://blog.gogrid.com/2011/09/01/poll-in-the-cloud-or-on-the-cloud-that-is-the-question-or-is-it/#comment-18187 Michael Sheehan Tue, 27 Sep 2011 14:09:16 +0000 http://blog.gogrid.com/?p=3227#comment-18187 That is an interesting point. The driver of a train probably wouldn't say that they are "on" the train if they are actively conducting it. But if they are talking about location (e.g., as opposed to being on the station platform), they may.

]]> http://blog.gogrid.com/2011/09/01/poll-in-the-cloud-or-on-the-cloud-that-is-the-question-or-is-it/#comment-18173 K1_ Tue, 27 Sep 2011 12:37:22 +0000 http://blog.gogrid.com/?p=3227#comment-18173 I am not a native speaker of English, but for my ears it sounds like "on the cloud" implies a passive attitude, whereas "in the cloud" implies being one of the constituents of the cloud. When it comes to trains, does the driver say "I am on the train", or this sentence is just for the passengers?

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