{"id":2033,"date":"2012-06-07T18:34:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-07T18:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2292724"},"modified":"2012-06-07T18:34:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-07T18:34:00","slug":"cloud-computing-the-cloud-and-the-network-a-match-made-in-heaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/cloud-computing-the-cloud-and-the-network-a-match-made-in-heaven\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud Computing: The Cloud and the Network \u2013 a Match Made in Heaven"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Next week I\u2019ll be speaking at Cloud Expo in New York City, one of the premier cloud industry events in the U.S. Of the 150+ sessions that will take place over the four-day conference, a handful appears to address an essential element of the cloud: the network.<br \/>\nThe importance of an enterprise-grade network at the center of cloud services cannot be overstated. Without it, private clouds are closed systems, and public clouds are subject to unpredictable performance and potential security breaches. The optimum cloud is one that is network-based, where cloud services are actually embedded in the network. A network-based, or \u201cvirtual private cloud,\u201d allows cloud workloads and applications to be managed and delivered as part of a total solution to any device, just like voice and data.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2292724\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next week I\u2019ll be speaking at Cloud Expo in New York City, one of the premier cloud industry events in the U.S. Of the 150+ sessions that will take place over the four-day conference, a handful appears to address an essential element of the cloud: th&#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-2033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033","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=2033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}