{"id":2220,"date":"2012-06-20T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-20T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/blog-hub\/2012\/jun\/20\/the-private-cloud-strikes-back\/"},"modified":"2012-06-20T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-20T09:00:00","slug":"the-private-cloud-strikes-back-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/the-private-cloud-strikes-back-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The private cloud strikes back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having read JP Rangaswami&rsquo;s argument against private clouds (and the obvious promoting of his version of cloud) I have only to say that he&rsquo;s looking for oranges in an apple tree. His entire premise is based on the idea that enterprises are wholly concerned with cost and sharing risk when that can&rsquo;t be farther from the truth.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Yes, cost is indeed a factor, as is sharing risk, but a bigger and more important factor facing the enterprise today is agility and flexibility&hellip;something that monolithic leviathan-like enterprise IT systems of today definitely are not.<\/p>\n<p>He then jumps from cost to social enterprise as if there is a causal relationship there when, in fact, they are two separate discussions. I don&rsquo;t doubt that if you are a consumer (not just customer) facing organization, it&rsquo;s best to get on that social enterprise bandwagon, but if your main &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having read JP Rangaswami&rsquo;s argument against private clouds (and the obvious promoting of his version of cloud) I have only to say that he&rsquo;s looking for oranges in an apple tree. His entire premise is based on the idea that enterprises are &#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-2220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2220","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=2220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}