The document discusses a #CloudHaiku challenge posed to technology leaders to write haiku poems about clouds and open technology. It provides examples of haikus submitted on topics like apps scaling in the cloud, IoT and cloud convergence, and open source being today's hot source. It encourages readers to post their own cloud haikus on Twitter using #CloudHaiku and challenges others to do the same.

1. Poetry of
the Cloud

2. t first glance, the cloud doesn’t lend itself to poetry. If
Shakespeare were alive today, the object of his sonnets probably
wouldn’t be virtual machines, bare metal, public/private/hybrid or
even the workloads they support. But once you scratch the
surface, poetry can be found just about anywhere—even a data center.
Open technology is certainly one area that can inspire prose. Think about it:
Where else in business do you see competitors working side-by-side for the
greater good? There’s a certain beauty in the fact that these projects are
only as strong as the communities that support them.
It’s in this spirit that we decided to pose the #CloudHaiku challenge to some
of today’s most brilliant minds in cloud and open tech. Industry leaders like
Lorinda Brandon (CapitalOne), Kris Borchers (JS Foundation), Al Gillen
(IDC), Leslie Carr (Clover Health), Rich Miller (Telematica) and so many more
were kind enough to lend their voice to this experiment. We’ve compiled just
a sample of our favorites in this eBook.
But #CloudHaiku doesn’t stop here. Post yours to Twitter using the
#CloudHaiku hashtag and challenge a friend, colleague or fellow open
source community member to do the same.
Learn more about the work IBM is doing to support an open cloud
ecosystem at bit.ly/OpenByDesign.
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3. I know my apps scale
Because they live in the cloud
Bring on my success
Lorinda Brandon
@lindybrandon
Director, Developer Marketing
Capital One DevExchange

4. Span the dev chasm
IoT and cloud converge
JavaScript is key
Kris Borchers
@kborchers
Executive Director
JS Foundation

5. Doubters reversed course
Open code is today's hot source
And tomorrow's force
Al Gillen
@algillen
Program VP, System Software
IDC

6. The sun is shining
Yet new clouds are closing in
Time to open source
Todd Moore
@tmmoore_1
Vice President, Open Technology
IBM

7. Cloud makes your systems
Someone else's problem and
Who doesn't love that?
Leslie Carr
@lesliegeek
Senior DevOps Engineer
Clover Health

8. Rich Miller
@rhm2k
CEO
Telematica, Inc.
What is "the dream"?
Radical transparency…
and abundant code

9. Cloud, oh cloud, they say
What in the world is a cloud?
The future lives there
Swarna Podila
@skpodila
Product Marketing
Avi Networks

10. Rob Hirschfeld
@zehicle
Founder & CEO
RackN
Open tech is what
A community builds by
Sharing together

11. Sriram Subramanian
@sriramhere
Founder & CEO
CloudDon
Public or private?
Best cloud depends on workload
That is the answer

12. You can be
a poet, too!
Think up your best 5-7-5 cloud combination
Share it on Twitter with
#CloudHaiku