{"id":6386,"date":"2013-03-08T00:31:14","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T00:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2013\/mar\/08\/3-reasons-to-embrace-the-private-cloud\/"},"modified":"2013-03-08T00:31:14","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T00:31:14","slug":"3-reasons-to-embrace-the-private-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/3-reasons-to-embrace-the-private-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"3 reasons to embrace the private cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For everything cloud computing offers &ndash; speed, convenience, simplicity, offsite backups &ndash; its &ldquo;public&rdquo; nature remains a touchy subject for enterprise.<\/p>\n<p>This simple fact explains why many organisations have been slow to embrace the cloud. In business, data security is everything. And for decision makers at big firms, trusting all mission-critical data into the care of a third-party IT vendor sounds just a bit too risky.<\/p>\n<p>But with the arrival of the private cloud, organizations can enjoy the conveniences of cloud computing without a lot of the tradeoffs. Here&rsquo;s why they might want to give it a shot:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Data security and compliance<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;A virtual infrastructure that offers on-the-go, anytime data access may <em>sound<\/em> great, but how can we be sure our data is safe?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>This was &ndash; and still is &ndash; the big question for enterprise when confronted with cloud computing. The public cloud, they reason, is simply more vulnerable to misuse &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For everything cloud computing offers &ndash; speed, convenience, simplicity, offsite backups &ndash; its &ldquo;public&rdquo; nature remains a touchy subject for enterprise.<br \/>\nThis simple fact explains why many organisations have been slow to embrace th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6386","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}