{"id":15923,"date":"2015-07-15T17:15:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-15T17:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3367084"},"modified":"2015-07-15T17:15:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T17:15:00","slug":"cloud-is-no-longer-uncharted-territory-by-vmtyler-cloudexpo-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/cloud-is-no-longer-uncharted-territory-by-vmtyler-cloudexpo-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud Is No Longer Uncharted Territory By @vmTyler | @CloudExpo #Cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During my first trip out to the Blue Box office in Seattle this week, I thought about the coast-to-coast flight while relaxing at 40,000 feet. A journey of thousands of miles made completely routinely in about five hours. I remembered one of my favorite computer games as a kid\u2014The Oregon Trail. It tried to capture the experience of leading a wagon train of settlers to the West Coast in 1848. The trip took almost six months and death along the way wasn\u2019t uncommon, as the game frequently reminded you.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s amazing how that trip has transformed from perilous to commonplace.The need for safe travel drove massive technology advancements. We\u2019ve seen a similar transformative push in cloud computing. Cloud computing is already having a major impact on IT services. The need for on-demand, self-service offerings from the developers and lines of business has made this a critical area for CIOs to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3367084\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During my first trip out to the Blue Box office in Seattle this week, I thought about the coast-to-coast flight while relaxing at 40,000 feet. A journey of thousands of miles made completely routinely in about five hours. I remembered one of my favorite computer games as a kid&mdash;The Oregon Trail. It tried to capture the experience of leading a wagon train of settlers to the West Coast in 1848. The trip took almost six months and death along the way wasn&rsquo;t uncommon, as the game frequently reminded you.<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s amazing how that trip has transformed from perilous to commonplace.The need for safe travel drove massive technology advancements. We&rsquo;ve seen a similar transformative push in cloud computing. Cloud computing is already having a major impact on IT services. The need for on-demand, self-service offerings from the developers and lines of business has made this a critical area for CIOs to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3367084\" target=\"_blank\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":143,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15923","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\/143"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15923"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16187,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15923\/revisions\/16187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}