{"id":3767,"date":"2012-09-24T19:28:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T19:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2374278"},"modified":"2012-09-24T19:28:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-24T19:28:00","slug":"driving-the-demand-for-cloud-computing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/driving-the-demand-for-cloud-computing\/","title":{"rendered":"Driving the Demand for Cloud Computing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cNo matter how good we get at Big Data analytics, we\u2019ll never be able to accurately predict the future of technology,\u201d noted John Gilmartin, VP of Product Marketing at Coraid, in this exclusive Q&#038;A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. \u201cThis industry is changing fast, bringing ever greater value to end users,\u201d Gilmartin continued. \u201cThe only sure bet is that technology will change even faster and in unexpected ways in the future.\u201d<br \/>\nCloud Computing Journal: Just having the enterprise data is good. Extracting meaningful information out of this data is priceless. Agree or disagree?<br \/>\nJohn Gilmartin: Definitely agree. Data in enterprises is growing at an unprecedented rate, over 50% year-on-year by some estimates. This growth in data represents both a challenge and an opportunity. IT administrators, faced with the daunting task of storing petabytes of data for their organizations, are turning to cloud architectures for flexibility, ease of management and responsiveness. Once they have a way to capture data, they need ways to mine the data for business insights. According to analysts, business intelligence is the number one priority for CIOs. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2374278\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cNo matter how good we get at Big Data analytics, we\u2019ll never be able to accurately predict the future of technology,\u201d noted John Gilmartin, VP of Product Marketing at Coraid, in this exclusive Q&amp;A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. &#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-3767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3767","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=3767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}