{"id":4395,"date":"2012-10-30T09:39:06","date_gmt":"2012-10-30T09:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2012\/oct\/30\/what-does-100-cloud-adoption-mean-it-department\/"},"modified":"2012-10-30T09:39:06","modified_gmt":"2012-10-30T09:39:06","slug":"what-does-100-cloud-adoption-mean-for-the-it-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/what-does-100-cloud-adoption-mean-for-the-it-department\/","title":{"rendered":"What does 100% cloud adoption mean for the IT department?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Generally speaking, up until now, the IT department&rsquo;s responsibility has been to maintain the organisation&rsquo;s infrastructure regardless of cost.<\/p>\n<p>With IT providing the backbone to any thriving business, it is no surprise that MDs have favoured security over cost any day &ndash; but the advent of cloud computing has changed all of that.<\/p>\n<p>As the economic outlook remains pessimistic, companies are looking for ways to cut costs &ndash; often leading to a reduction in staff. With this in mind, IT staff are quick to label the cloud as a passing fad in the fear full adoption could lead to unemployment.<\/p>\n<p>Realistically speaking though, cloud computing doesn&rsquo;t mean the end of the IT department, in fact; it means the start of a more productive workforce.<\/p>\n<p>The more enlightened members of staff will recognise that the role is changing. Gone are the days of spending all day in the computer room &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Generally speaking, up until now, the IT department&rsquo;s responsibility has been to maintain the organisation&rsquo;s infrastructure regardless of cost.<br \/>\nWith IT providing the backbone to any thriving business, it is no surprise that MDs have favoure&#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-4395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4395","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=4395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}