{"id":10958,"date":"2014-06-24T14:16:28","date_gmt":"2014-06-24T14:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2014\/jun\/24\/customers-miss-out-vendors-fight-cloud-wars-research-argues\/"},"modified":"2014-06-24T14:16:28","modified_gmt":"2014-06-24T14:16:28","slug":"customers-miss-out-as-vendors-fight-cloud-wars-research-argues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/customers-miss-out-as-vendors-fight-cloud-wars-research-argues\/","title":{"rendered":"Customers miss out as vendors fight cloud wars, research argues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the cloud wars gain pace from the big vendors, customers are losing out due to overwhelming failure rates, according to new research from enterprise cloud infrastructure provider iland.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Stories about successful cloud implementations are captivating, but the reality is that cloud is more complex than many news headlines make it out to be,&rdquo; said EMA vice president Dennis Drogseth. &ldquo;Companies must be self-aware.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The research, of more than 400 professionals across three continents, found that respondents used on average three cloud vendors. Even though vendor lock-in is thankfully scarcer now than a few years ago, this lack of a pressing need for a single vendor indicates an ongoing effort to find the right cloud solution, according to iland.<\/p>\n<p>Customers are suffering as a result of the cloud wars, the research asserts. The highest failure rates customers reported were by Rackspace (63%), followed by AWS (57%) and Microsoft Azure (44 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the cloud wars gain pace from the big vendors, customers are losing out due to overwhelming failure rates, according to new research from enterprise cloud infrastructure provider iland.<br \/>\n&ldquo;Stories about successful cloud implementations are capti&#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-10958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10958","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=10958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}