{"id":4236,"date":"2012-10-18T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2406736"},"modified":"2012-10-18T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-18T13:00:00","slug":"jerry-yangs-reportedly-backing-metacloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/jerry-yangs-reportedly-backing-metacloud\/","title":{"rendered":"Jerry Yang\u2019s Reportedly Backing Metacloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever get the feeling that soon there\u2019ll be so many clouds we\u2019ll never see the sun again? Well, here\u2019s another one.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s called Metacloud.<br \/>\nAfter quietly starting early last year it\u2019s just hit the radar, turning up with an undisclosed investment from Storm Ventures and \u2013 according to Wired \u2013former Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang\u2019s AME Cloud Ventures.<br \/>\nThat makes some sense since Metacloud is headed by Steve Curry, who spent a dozen years at Yahoo managing its global storage operations, responsible for hundreds of petabytes of content and user data.<br \/>\nThe other folks involved are \u00e9migr\u00e9s from Ticketmaster, the third largest e-commerce system in the world, including Metacloud CTO Sean Lynch who was head of technical operations there. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2406736\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever get the feeling that soon there\u2019ll be so many clouds we\u2019ll never see the sun again? Well, here\u2019s another one.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s called Metacloud.<br \/>\nAfter quietly starting early last year it\u2019s just hit the radar, turning up with an undisclosed investm&#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-4236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4236","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=4236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}