How About Some Fog Computing?
By
Bob Brewin
Last year Marine Brig. Gen. Kevin Nally had it with the term cloud computing, which had morphed into a buzz phrase about as informative as "transformation," a word beloved by Pentagon bureaucracy.
So Nally decided the Marine Corps should move toward fog computing, somewhat analogous to cloud computing, as fog is really a cloud close to the ground.
Nally said he did not realize that what started out as a joke had taken on a meaning of its own until he showed up for a meeting at the Defense Information Systems Agency headquarters in Ft. Meade, Md., and more than one person asked to get on his calendar for a fog computing briefing.
"Sorry, it's still a Marine secret," Nally said he told the folks wanting to get into the fog.