{"id":2631,"date":"2012-07-12T15:34:35","date_gmt":"2012-07-12T15:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2012\/jul\/12\/considerations-a-cio-must-make-when-moving-to-the-cloud\/"},"modified":"2012-07-12T15:34:35","modified_gmt":"2012-07-12T15:34:35","slug":"what-considerations-must-a-cio-make-when-moving-to-the-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/what-considerations-must-a-cio-make-when-moving-to-the-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"What considerations must a CIO make when moving to the cloud?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have to face facts: cloud uptake is on the rise.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, deployments are set to double by 2015, and up to 200,000 UK jobs will be created by cloud computing technologies between 2011 and 2015.<\/p>\n<p>CIOs therefore have to accept that cloud is here, and here to stay. So what considerations must a CIO make when moving to the cloud, even if he is entirely unwilling to do so?!<\/p>\n<p>Below, I have outlined some tips for any CIO who is either looking to move to the cloud, or indeed, is being pushed into making the move by his CFO or CEO&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do I understand what cloud is and what it can do for my business?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As cloud computing adoption grows, so does the hype surrounding it. Everyone&rsquo;s talking about the benefits that can be achieved by moving to the cloud, but does the CIO truly understand what &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have to face facts: cloud uptake is on the rise.<br \/>\nIndeed, deployments are set to double by 2015, and up to 200,000 UK jobs will be created by cloud computing technologies between 2011 and 2015.<br \/>\nCIOs therefore have to accept that cloud is here, and he&#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-2631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2631","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=2631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}