{"id":3968,"date":"2012-10-04T20:33:49","date_gmt":"2012-10-04T20:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2012\/oct\/04\/top-5-cloud-features-every-exec-should-know\/"},"modified":"2012-10-04T20:33:49","modified_gmt":"2012-10-04T20:33:49","slug":"what-are-the-top-five-cloud-features-every-exec-should-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/what-are-the-top-five-cloud-features-every-exec-should-know\/","title":{"rendered":"What are the top five cloud features every exec should know?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Sharon Florentine<\/em><\/p>\n<p>You don&rsquo;t have to be an IT expert to grasp that the cloud translates to cost savings and operational efficiencies. But knowing the key cloud attributes can make selling a migration to&nbsp;the cloud&nbsp;an easy business decision to make.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Cohesive Flexible Technologies (CohesiveFT), an enterprise application-to-cloud migration services company, has&nbsp;a great blog post&nbsp;explaining the major benefits and features of the cloud. Knowing the&nbsp;basic features of cloud computing&nbsp;can help you, as an executive, explain to any skeptics how migrating to the cloud will translate to efficiencies outside of the IT department and have a positive impact on the entire business.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here are the top five cloud features you should know about as an executive:&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>On-demand self-service<\/em>: Your business can use the cloud to obtain, configure and deploy apps without any IT heavy lifting. Many cloud vendors provide templates to front-load most of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sharon Florentine<br \/>\nYou don&rsquo;t have to be an IT expert to grasp that the cloud translates to cost savings and operational efficiencies. But knowing the key cloud attributes can make selling a migration to&nbsp;the cloud&nbsp;an easy business deci&#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-3968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3968","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=3968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}