It's that festive time of year again, so you may want to build yourself a fire  and grab a cup of hot chocolate as you prepare for a rousing round of holiday/IT joy.

Grab your co-workers and gather around the water cooler while singing along to this post and others from years past like: "Twas the night before big data"; "Rudolf the red-nosed Baysenian network?"; "Big data is coming to town!"; and of course who could forget (you can't, even if you want to!): "The twelve days of big data analytics."

Over the wires and through the cloud
To Grandmother's smart house we go.
The GPS knows the way to guide the car
Through white and drifted snow.

Over the wires and through the cloud
Oh, how the data does blow up.
Text streams and bytes get stored
As sensors send data all around as we go.

Over the wires and through the cloud
The connected car throws off a full day's worth of data
Oh, hear the streaming data ringing ting-a-ling-ling,
For it is a cloud IoT day

Over the wires and through the cloud
Trot faster my Nifi way
We love the sound of music as its streams o'er the ground
For it is a cloud IoT day

Over the wires and through the cloud
And straight through the smart grid we go.
We seem to go so dreadfully slow when our wifi fails to connect
Waiting on fiber to be installed is so frustrating.

Over the wires and through the cloud
Now Grandma's hotspot I can connect to.
Hurrah for IoT; the streaming movie is almost done;
Hurrah for the spark that helps run our connected car.

Enjoy the holidays!!!
NOTE: Soundtrack will soon be available on 8-track as well as cassette (Google these if you aren't familiar with these terms :).