{"id":12419,"date":"2015-02-05T15:15:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T15:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3292485"},"modified":"2015-02-05T15:15:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T15:15:00","slug":"cloud-rationalization-by-efeatherston-cloudexpo-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/cloud-rationalization-by-efeatherston-cloudexpo-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud Rationalization By @EFeatherston | @CloudExpo [#Cloud]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is no arguing the cloud is hot. In a recent blog post The Cloud \u2013 Is it your actual destination? I raise the point that the cloud itself is not the destination.  It\u2019s a vehicle, a conduit that can help you solve challenges and provide value back to the business. It is a powerful vehicle. IDC forecasts global public IT Cloud services spending to reach nearly $108B by 2017. Gartner expects that by 2016 the bulk of IT spend will be for the cloud. For all the hype, the cloud and its benefits are real. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3292485\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is no arguing the cloud is hot. In a recent blog post The Cloud &ndash; Is it your actual destination? I raise the point that the cloud itself is not the destination.  It&rsquo;s a vehicle, a conduit that can help you solve challenges and provide value back to the business. It is a powerful vehicle. IDC forecasts global public IT Cloud services spending to reach nearly $108B by 2017. Gartner expects that by 2016 the bulk of IT spend will be for the cloud. For all the hype, the cloud and its benefits are real. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3292485\" 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-12419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12419","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=12419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}