{"id":23312,"date":"2016-06-18T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-18T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3844620"},"modified":"2016-06-18T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-06-18T16:00:00","slug":"a-trial-balloon-takes-flight-into-the-cloud-cloudexpo-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/a-trial-balloon-takes-flight-into-the-cloud-cloudexpo-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"A Trial Balloon Takes Flight into the Cloud | @CloudExpo #Cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Humorous metaphor about the cloud aside, this is a not-so-lighthearted blog entry. This is the convergence of progress, loss, and humility.<br \/>\nIn the fall of 2015, Salesforce.com (SFDC) announced upcoming initiatives for the Internet of Things. What we now know is that it was envisioned with AWS as its backbone.<br \/>\nBy some accounts, the affected infrastructure team at SFDC advocated fiercely for themselves. After all, they had built something in the industry which is still unparalleled, despite many newcomers in the field. Salesforce.com was all about the cloud, even when it was derided, not like today when everyone who&#8217;s not rushing to it is considered ancient.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3844620\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humorous metaphor about the cloud aside, this is a not-so-lighthearted blog entry. This is the convergence of progress, loss, and humility.<br \/>\nIn the fall of 2015, Salesforce.com (SFDC) announced upcoming initiatives for the Internet of Things. What we no&#8230;<\/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-23312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23312","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=23312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23313,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23312\/revisions\/23313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}