{"id":11272,"date":"2014-08-15T13:15:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-15T13:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3147999"},"modified":"2014-08-15T13:15:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-15T13:15:00","slug":"cloudexpo-efficient-multi-vendor-cloud-helps-break-incipient-monopolies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/cloudexpo-efficient-multi-vendor-cloud-helps-break-incipient-monopolies\/","title":{"rendered":"@CloudExpo | Efficient Multi-Vendor #Cloud Helps Break Incipient Monopolies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Think of a cloud provider. I\u2019d bet that for the majority of people reading this article, the first that comes to mind is AWS. Amazon Web Services were a trailblazer in the cloud space, and they still lead adoption rates at all levels of the market, from SMBs to multinationals. In some ways that\u2019s great: Amazon constantly innovate and refine their product. But, at the same time, it\u2019s not entirely healthy for a market to be completely dominated by one vendor. Google\u2019s Compute Engine is snapping at Amazon\u2019s heels, but ideally we\u2019d like to see a flourishing market with many competitors. A market in which the word \u201ccloud\u201d doesn\u2019t immediately bring one vendor to mind.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3147999\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Think of a cloud provider. I&rsquo;d bet that for the majority of people reading this article, the first that comes to mind is AWS. Amazon Web Services were a trailblazer in the cloud space, and they still lead adoption rates at all levels of the market, from SMBs to multinationals. In some ways that&rsquo;s great: Amazon constantly innovate and refine their product. But, at the same time, it&rsquo;s not entirely healthy for a market to be completely dominated by one vendor. Google&rsquo;s Compute Engine is snapping at Amazon&rsquo;s heels, but ideally we&rsquo;d like to see a flourishing market with many competitors. A market in which the word &ldquo;cloud&rdquo; doesn&rsquo;t immediately bring one vendor to mind.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3147999\" 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-11272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11272","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=11272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}