{"id":1716,"date":"2012-05-23T08:00:54","date_gmt":"2012-05-23T08:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/blog-hub\/2012\/may\/23\/2012-the-year-of-the-cloud\/"},"modified":"2012-05-23T08:00:54","modified_gmt":"2012-05-23T08:00:54","slug":"2012-the-year-of-the-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/2012-the-year-of-the-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"2012: the year of the cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>2012. This is the year of the cloud. This is the year that business is realising it needs the cloud. But why?<\/p>\n<p>Efficiencies is the answer.<\/p>\n<p>If surviving the GFC taught us one thing, it&rsquo;s how to be lean. If business, and especially small business is to survive and even thrive post-GFC, it must learn to operate on a strict diet.<\/p>\n<p>To be lean and mean. This means not just micro-managing your managers and staff to greater productivity, but looking at your business systems and how they can serve you, not the other way around.<\/p>\n<p>By choosing wisely with public cloud services, businesses can selectively tailor a cloud-based system to their needs (and budget) without the expensive implementation and overheads previously seen with proprietary systems.<\/p>\n<p>For example, a small business (in a remote country location) we are currently co-consulting with was looking to decentralise their accounting work. They wanted &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2012. This is the year of the cloud. This is the year that business is realising it needs the cloud. But why?<br \/>\nEfficiencies is the answer.<br \/>\nIf surviving the GFC taught us one thing, it&rsquo;s how to be lean. If business, and especially small business i&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}