{"id":4819,"date":"2012-11-27T16:29:17","date_gmt":"2012-11-27T16:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2458045"},"modified":"2012-11-27T16:29:17","modified_gmt":"2012-11-27T16:29:17","slug":"the-case-for-cloud-brokers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/the-case-for-cloud-brokers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Case for Cloud Brokers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Cloud market is diverse and highly fragmented \u2013 typical of any market in its early stages. The broad range of cloud activities and the frantic pace of new products \/ services getting launched is driving the need to consolidate and unify cloud services for the end user and for the market as a whole.<br \/>\nThis article tries to understand the business model of cloud brokers and its importance to the cloud market. Typically, almost all business models involve different levels in what are known as value chains or supply chains.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2458045\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cloud market is diverse and highly fragmented \u2013 typical of any market in its early stages. The broad range of cloud activities and the frantic pace of new products \/ services getting launched is driving the need to consolidate and unify cloud ser&#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-4819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4819","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=4819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}