{"id":10650,"date":"2014-05-01T03:50:18","date_gmt":"2014-05-01T03:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2014\/may\/01\/six-best-business-backups-and-bbc\/"},"modified":"2014-05-01T03:50:18","modified_gmt":"2014-05-01T03:50:18","slug":"six-of-the-best-business-backups-and-the-bbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/six-of-the-best-business-backups-and-the-bbc\/","title":{"rendered":"Six of the best: Business, backups and the BBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The latest edition of Six of the Best, featuring the <em>CloudTech<\/em> editorial team&rsquo;s favourite links from around the web, has either a slightly hotchpotch feel to it, or covers an extremely wide range of cloud computing stories over the past couple of weeks. We&rsquo;ll leave it up to you to decide. <span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoListParagraph\" style=\"margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;\"><span><span>1)<span style=\"font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><\/span><strong>Moving to the cloud? Don&rsquo;t rush to kiss legacy applications goodbye [Forbes]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Dominick Paul, national vice president of strategic solutions for SunGard Availability Services, opens with an anecdote. He kicked off a presentation at a CIO summit by explaining that &ldquo;with the advent of the cloud, UNIX was now a legacy platform.&rdquo; The audience got the joke &ndash; given that UNIX was the hottest thing just five years ago, it seems bizarre to consider it legacy because of the cloud.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">As a result, Paul&rsquo;s theory in the article goes: &ldquo;Just because cloud-based technologies are the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest edition of Six of the Best, featuring the CloudTech editorial team&rsquo;s favourite links from around the web, has either a slightly hotchpotch feel to it, or covers an extremely wide range of cloud computing stories over the past couple of&#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-10650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10650","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=10650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}