{"id":10408,"date":"2014-03-13T00:33:26","date_gmt":"2014-03-13T00:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2014\/mar\/13\/for-most-businesses-the-cloud-is-evolutionary-not-revolutionary\/"},"modified":"2014-03-13T00:33:26","modified_gmt":"2014-03-13T00:33:26","slug":"why-for-most-businesses-the-cloud-is-evolutionary-not-revolutionary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/why-for-most-businesses-the-cloud-is-evolutionary-not-revolutionary\/","title":{"rendered":"Why for most businesses the cloud is evolutionary, not revolutionary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>IT decision makers are conservative by nature: &ldquo;If it isn&rsquo;t broken, don&rsquo;t fix it.&rdquo; <br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>I frequently hear the question, &ldquo;What does the cloud do for me that I can&rsquo;t do in my own data centre?&rdquo; The honest answer is nothing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>There is nothing that can be done in the cloud that couldn&rsquo;t also be done in an in-house data centre or with collocated hardware in an external data centre.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>However, almost everything a business may want to do with IT can be done more quickly, less expensively, and with intrinsically more scalability in the cloud. That&rsquo;s the true value of cloud platforms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>A business could choose to buy and collocate new servers when updating its groupware application. It&rsquo;s a simple process of getting approval for the capital expenditure, procuring the servers and the data centre space, paying for support and licensing, paying for server &#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IT decision makers are conservative by nature: &ldquo;If it isn&rsquo;t broken, don&rsquo;t fix it.&rdquo;<br \/>\nI frequently hear the question, &ldquo;What does the cloud do for me that I can&rsquo;t do in my own data centre?&rdquo; The honest answer is no&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}