{"id":11153,"date":"2014-07-18T18:27:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T18:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3124492"},"modified":"2014-07-18T18:27:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-18T18:27:00","slug":"a-cloud-computing-nutrition-label","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/a-cloud-computing-nutrition-label\/","title":{"rendered":"A Cloud Computing \u2018Nutrition Label\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like most maturing industries, standards are required to achieve broad adoption and maximum value. For the cloud, in particular cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offerings like Amazon Web Services and Rackspace Cloud, it\u2019s time for a standard method for presenting these services so buyers can reasonably compare and contrast and make better buying decisions.<br \/>\nAt the moment, purchasing IaaS is similar to how groceries were bought decades ago \u2013 very difficult to compare \u2013 both the product contents and the price\/value vary from one vendor to another. A recent study conducted by the Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA) \u2013 involving Intel, Appnomic Systems and a number of other ODCA enterprise members \u2013 illustrates just how difficult the situation is today.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3124492\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like most maturing industries, standards are required to achieve broad adoption and maximum value. For the cloud, in particular cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offerings like Amazon Web Services and Rackspace Cloud, it&rsquo;s time for a standard method for presenting these services so buyers can reasonably compare and contrast and make better buying decisions.<br \/>\nAt the moment, purchasing IaaS is similar to how groceries were bought decades ago &ndash; very difficult to compare &ndash; both the product contents and the price\/value vary from one vendor to another. A recent study conducted by the Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA) &ndash; involving Intel, Appnomic Systems and a number of other ODCA enterprise members &ndash; illustrates just how difficult the situation is today.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3124492\" target=\"_blank\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11153","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}