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The term "cloudwashing" refers to "the practice of slapping the term 'cloud' on any technology you have." The term "fabric washing" is not defined but I think we can infer to its meaning given that fabric computing is "a consolidated high-performance computing system consisting of loosely coupled storage, networking and parallel processing functions linked by high bandwidth interconnects. Via Larry Dignan's summary (which with content like "the fabric thing sounds way futuristic" reads like it's written for ten-year-olds).

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