{"id":10997,"date":"2014-07-01T13:57:32","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T13:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2014\/jul\/01\/frugal-and-agile-devops-the-cloud-computing-advantage\/"},"modified":"2014-07-01T13:57:32","modified_gmt":"2014-07-01T13:57:32","slug":"frugal-and-agile-devops-the-cloud-computing-advantage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/frugal-and-agile-devops-the-cloud-computing-advantage\/","title":{"rendered":"Frugal and Agile DevOps &#8211; the cloud computing advantage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Accomplish much more, very rapidly, while spending less &#8211; this is the business technology trend that savvy executives everywhere have embraced. Worldwide IT spending will reach a total $3.7 trillion in 2014, that&#8217;s a 2.1 percent increase from last year, according to the latest global market study by Gartner.<\/p>\n<p>This forecast, however, is down from their earlier projections of 3.2 percent growth.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s driving the ongoing transition to lower business technology spending? The slower outlook for 2014 is attributed to a reduction in growth expectations for end-user devices, data center systems and IT related services.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, the typical IT investment is evolving. It&#8217;s transitioning from a legacy focus on technology and processes, to a focus on new business models and associated strategic outcomes that are purposefully enabled by digitalization.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Transition within enterprise mobile devices<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The IT end-user devices market &#8211; which includes PCs, ultrabooks, smartphones, tablets &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Accomplish much more, very rapidly, while spending less &#8211; this is the business technology trend that savvy executives everywhere have embraced. Worldwide IT spending will reach a total $3.7 trillion in 2014, that&#8217;s a 2.1 percent increase from last year&#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-10997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10997","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=10997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}