{"id":5350,"date":"2013-01-10T16:30:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-10T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2507628"},"modified":"2013-01-10T16:30:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-10T16:30:00","slug":"standardization-versus-standards-in-the-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/standardization-versus-standards-in-the-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"Standardization versus Standards in the Cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently posited a question on Twitter to feel out the attitudes toward technology related to cloud bridges. As you might recall, IPSec VPN connectivity was cited by attendees (real people) as a major requirement for cloud bridges at Gartner DC. For some time now, SSL VPNs have been an effective alternative to IPSec VPN so I wondered why it was that IPSec remains the top choice.<br \/>\nTwo answers (one from Steve Shah, the other from Hoff) in particular elicited an abstracted thought regarding standards in general.<br \/>\nAs Hoff and Steve point out, there&#8217;s value in standards, particularly with respect to interoperability and the ability to leverage existing skills and infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2507628\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently posited a question on Twitter to feel out the attitudes toward technology related to cloud bridges. As you might recall, IPSec VPN connectivity was cited by attendees (real people) as a major requirement for cloud bridges at Gartner DC. For &#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-5350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5350","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=5350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}