{"id":1331,"date":"2012-05-02T14:02:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T14:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2268481"},"modified":"2012-05-02T14:02:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-02T14:02:00","slug":"cloud-computing-is-meeting-the-enterprise-needs-of-smbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/cloud-computing-is-meeting-the-enterprise-needs-of-smbs\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud Computing Is Meeting the \u201cEnterprise\u201d Needs of SMBs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been in technology marketing since my career began, and there is one word that I have come to loathe because of its misuse by marketing and business leaders in technology \u2013 enterprise, (or enterprise-class). I\u2019m guilty of using it \u2013 it\u2019s my job to ensure prospects know that we offer the best technologies available to handle complex workloads and applications.<br \/>\nBut what is the definition of enterprise, really? A quick Bing search produces three definitions \u2013 commercial business, business activities directed at profit, and a daring new project. A quick search of the Gartner IT Glossary tells me the definition of enterprise-class is \u201ca term referring to the ability of a given tool or product to handle complex processes or services.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2268481\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been in technology marketing since my career began, and there is one word that I have come to loathe because of its misuse by marketing and business leaders in technology \u2013 enterprise, (or enterprise-class). I\u2019m guilty of using it \u2013 it\u2019s&#8230;<\/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-1331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331","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=1331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}