{"id":6984,"date":"2013-04-15T23:22:19","date_gmt":"2013-04-15T23:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2013\/apr\/16\/putting-5-cloud-myths-and-misunderstandings-to-bed\/"},"modified":"2013-04-15T23:22:19","modified_gmt":"2013-04-15T23:22:19","slug":"putting-5-cloud-myths-and-misunderstandings-to-bed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/putting-5-cloud-myths-and-misunderstandings-to-bed\/","title":{"rendered":"Putting 5 cloud myths and misunderstandings to bed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The promise of cloud computing as a way to reduce costs, manage expansion and make the creation of new services easier is very real, but we&rsquo;re still in the early days of adoption.<\/p>\n<p>Organisations and governments are still largely digesting what they&rsquo;ve heard, sifting through the benefits, and weighing up the &ldquo;fear, uncertainty and doubt&rdquo; concerning its impact on businesses and services.<\/p>\n<p>What is true and very real is the impact it&rsquo;s having on how services are being created and how seriously corporate IT is taking it.<\/p>\n<p>For those wanting to build the next Facebook it&rsquo;s a no-brainer. Pinterest, the fanatically followed online pin board is the fastest growing site in history, (17m users in just 9 months), and to date it&rsquo;s pure cloud.<\/p>\n<p>However, for the corporate IT manager there&rsquo;s the issue of trust to be addressed. The goal is alluring; moving infrastructure &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The promise of cloud computing as a way to reduce costs, manage expansion and make the creation of new services easier is very real, but we&rsquo;re still in the early days of adoption.<br \/>\nOrganisations and governments are still largely digesting what the&#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-6984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6984","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=6984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}