{"id":5164,"date":"2012-12-19T14:15:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-19T14:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2489645"},"modified":"2012-12-19T14:15:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-19T14:15:00","slug":"iaas-cloud-litmus-test-the-five-minute-vm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/iaas-cloud-litmus-test-the-five-minute-vm\/","title":{"rendered":"IaaS Cloud Litmus Test \u2013  The Five Minute VM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I will make this simple.  There is only one question you need to ask yourself or your IT department to determine if what you have is really an Infrastructure-as-a-Service cloud.<br \/>\nCan I get a VM in 5-10 minutes?<br \/>\nPerhaps a little bit more detailed?<br \/>\nCan a properly credentialed user, with a legitimate need for cloud resources, log into your cloud portal or use your cloud API, request a set of cloud resources (compute, network, storage), and have them provisioned for them automatically in a matter of a few minutes (typically less than 10 and often less than 5)?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2489645\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I will make this simple.  There is only one question you need to ask yourself or your IT department to determine if what you have is really an Infrastructure-as-a-Service cloud.<br \/>\nCan I get a VM in 5-10 minutes?<br \/>\nPerhaps a little bit more detailed?<br \/>\nCan a &#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-5164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5164","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=5164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}