Cloud Computing’s RAIC? What’s that?

This detailed article over at martdatacollective.com explains the concept of RAIC:

Well over a year ago, in a conversation with Alexis Richardson, I came up with a catchy acronym to articulate an idea that I had been kicking around as a simple way to respond to all of the Sturm und Drang in the press and the blogosphere about “lock-in”, “data portability” and reliability of cloud computing providers.  I said — “You know what, mate, done properly, it would be like a RAID setup — it would be an array of cloud providers.  Umm, yeah, it would be RAIC!  ‘Redundant Array of Independent Cloud providers’”.  Alexis, as I recall, burst out laughing, and said something like “You better trademark that, Mark.  That’s great.”