{"id":3559,"date":"2012-09-11T14:31:26","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T14:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2355473"},"modified":"2012-09-11T14:31:26","modified_gmt":"2012-09-11T14:31:26","slug":"the-cloud-floor-wax-or-dessert-topping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/the-cloud-floor-wax-or-dessert-topping\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cloud: Floor Wax or Dessert Topping?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The end result of this ongoing specialization trend is that selecting the right product won\u2019t get much easier. It used to be that when you needed a software product, you could consider the big suites or the smaller specialists, rank them according to quality and price, and make your selection based on those criteria\u2014essentially comparing apples to apples. But with the Cloud, you have a number of specialty players who each solve different problems well, and you need to figure out the right tool\u2014or combination of tools\u2014for the problems you\u2019re trying to solve.<br \/>\nCertainly part of this move toward specialization is a result of the emerging nature of the Cloud and NoSQL marketplaces, but the CAP Theorem won\u2019t go away once the products mature. As a result, ZapThink expects the maturation of these markets to take a dramatically different tack than the SOA Suite market from the last decade. If you\u2019re waiting for some big vendor suite to solve all your Cloud problems, dream on.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2355473\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The end result of this ongoing specialization trend is that selecting the right product won\u2019t get much easier. It used to be that when you needed a software product, you could consider the big suites or the smaller specialists, rank them according to&#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-3559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3559","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=3559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}