{"id":17061,"date":"2015-09-04T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-04T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3442123"},"modified":"2015-09-04T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-04T15:00:00","slug":"cloud-hosting-look-beyond-cost-savings-by-kevin_jackson-cloudexpo-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/cloud-hosting-look-beyond-cost-savings-by-kevin_jackson-cloudexpo-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud Hosting: Look Beyond Cost Savings By @Kevin_Jackson | @CloudExpo #Cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is your company struggling with the idea of using \u201ccloud hosting\u201d in order to save money?<br \/>\nTruth be known, using cost savings as the primary reason for moving to cloud will almost guarantee failure. Some reasons that typically lead to cloud computing costing more include:<br \/>\nBuilding and migrating to a private cloud, which will almost always cost more than staying in a traditional data center;<br \/>\nMigrating legacy applications that weren\u2019t designed to operate in a virtualized environment or are tied to very specific environments run on older operating systems or require out-of-date drivers;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3442123\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is your company struggling with the idea of using &ldquo;cloud hosting&rdquo; in order to save money?<br \/>\nTruth be known, using cost savings as the primary reason for moving to cloud will almost guarantee failure. Some reasons that typically lead to cloud computing costing more include:<br \/>\nBuilding and migrating to a private cloud, which will almost always cost more than staying in a traditional data center;<br \/>\nMigrating legacy applications that weren&rsquo;t designed to operate in a virtualized environment or are tied to very specific environments run on older operating systems or require out-of-date drivers;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3442123\" 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-17061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17061","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=17061"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17284,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17061\/revisions\/17284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}