{"id":17014,"date":"2015-09-03T14:45:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T14:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3429046"},"modified":"2015-09-03T14:45:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-03T14:45:00","slug":"why-the-c-suite-should-look-to-it-to-stay-competitive-by-ferventgeek-cloudexpo-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/why-the-c-suite-should-look-to-it-to-stay-competitive-by-ferventgeek-cloudexpo-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the C-Suite Should Look to IT to Stay Competitive By @FerventGeek | @CloudExpo #Cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the Beatles may not have been too concerned about cloud uptime or network security when they wrote their famous ballad, they had the right idea about turning to friends for a helping hand. It\u2019s a lesson CIOs should take to heart.<br \/>\nAfter all, the IT department \u2013 including network, systems, applications and database administrators \u2013 is often the eyes, ears and hands of the CIO, providing front-line information and making recommendations on the latest technology and IT methods to ensure that business is running at optimum efficiency and achieving competitive advantage through technology. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3429046\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the Beatles may not have been too concerned about cloud uptime or network security when they wrote their famous ballad, they had the right idea about turning to friends for a helping hand. It&rsquo;s a lesson CIOs should take to heart.<br \/>\nAfter all, the IT department &ndash; including network, systems, applications and database administrators &ndash; is often the eyes, ears and hands of the CIO, providing front-line information and making recommendations on the latest technology and IT methods to ensure that business is running at optimum efficiency and achieving competitive advantage through technology. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3429046\" 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-17014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17014","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=17014"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17015,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17014\/revisions\/17015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}