{"id":5351,"date":"2013-01-10T15:15:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-10T15:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2507690"},"modified":"2013-01-10T15:15:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-10T15:15:00","slug":"seven-modeling-tools-to-help-assess-cloud-roi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/seven-modeling-tools-to-help-assess-cloud-roi\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven Modeling Tools to Help Assess Cloud ROI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gone are the days when the cloud meant simply a hosted virtual instance or resource on some provider&#8217;s network. We&#8217;re seeing all sorts of new variants and twists emerge. I&#8217;m not just referring to the use of storage or compute resources or those that allow for elastic computing, such as Amazon&#8217;s Reserved Instances.<br \/>\nWe&#8217;re likely to see industry-specific community clouds emerge. These clouds are built to address the security and compliance needs within specific industries. Examples of community clouds may well be Verizon&#8217;s Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) cloud service, which targets the healthcare community; and Metal Lynx, a cloud community targeting buyers and sellers of precious metals.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2507690\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gone are the days when the cloud meant simply a hosted virtual instance or resource on some provider&#8217;s network. We&#8217;re seeing all sorts of new variants and twists emerge. I&#8217;m not just referring to the use of storage or compute resources or those that al&#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-5351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5351","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=5351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}