{"id":5470,"date":"2013-01-21T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2518698"},"modified":"2013-01-21T14:30:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T14:30:00","slug":"four-ways-to-manage-your-internal-cloud-efficiently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/four-ways-to-manage-your-internal-cloud-efficiently\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Ways to Manage Your Internal Cloud Efficiently"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IT departments today are in a new position. No longer simply providers of technology to an organization, they\u2019ve become true service providers. Today, the IT department or data center leverages advances in infrastructure and virtualization technology to change the way we do business for the better.<br \/>\nYet, transitioning into a service provider who offers internal cloud solutions can be a challenge.<br \/>\nStart with your current quality of service and cost metrics. You need to understand where you stand. Do some benchmarking, and identify where you\u2019re using your resources. Compare your output with third party cloud vendors and you\u2019ll see opportunities for improvement.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2518698\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IT departments today are in a new position. No longer simply providers of technology to an organization, they\u2019ve become true service providers. Today, the IT department or data center leverages advances in infrastructure and virtualization technology&#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-5470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5470","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=5470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}