{"id":2604,"date":"2012-07-12T08:15:29","date_gmt":"2012-07-12T08:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/blog-hub\/2012\/jul\/12\/is-cloud-computing-ready-for-the-olympics\/"},"modified":"2012-07-12T08:15:29","modified_gmt":"2012-07-12T08:15:29","slug":"is-cloud-computing-ready-for-the-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/is-cloud-computing-ready-for-the-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Is cloud computing ready for the Olympics?"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>With the Olympic Games just around the corner, one wonders whether, in a time where cloud computing is coming on leaps and bounds and gaining popularity by the day, it will be ready to service the Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>Now the Olympics will of course be taking place in London this summer, one of the financial and technological hubs of the world, and during the Olympics a huge computing infrastructure will be required that generates a huge peak of data, so some form of <strong>cloud hosting<\/strong> solution, on paper, would be ideal.<\/p>\n<h4>Challenges<\/h4>\n<p>The London 2012 Olympics kicks off in just 15 days, so it&rsquo;s fast approaching now and most of the tech work has already been carried out.<\/p>\n<p>It has been revealed that nearly a quarter of the budget of the organising committee is spent on technology with 110,000 pieces of equipment being deployed with around 5,500 technical &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the Olympic Games just around the corner, one wonders whether, in a time where cloud computing is coming on leaps and bounds and gaining popularity by the day, it will be ready to service the Olympics.<br \/>\nNow the Olympics will of course be taking pl&#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-2604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604","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=2604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}