{"id":6992,"date":"2013-04-16T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2617517"},"modified":"2013-04-16T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-16T13:00:00","slug":"from-rent-to-buy-with-cloud-wait-a-minute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/from-rent-to-buy-with-cloud-wait-a-minute\/","title":{"rendered":"From Rent to Buy with Cloud? Wait a Minute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Piston CTO Josh McKenty predicts a radical shift in the cloud computing space. Building off of his firm\u2019s recent product launch, McKenty \u2014 who cofounded Piston in January 2011 \u2014 tells IT World that he expects to see a \u201cgiant explosion of businesses moving off Amazon Web Services.\u201d Going forward, McKenty says many companies will opt to build their own OpenStack clouds, for example, rather than purchase cloud services.<br \/>\nBut as IT World\u2019s Nancy Gohring (rightly) notes, that scenario is unlikely to be the case \u2014 or is, at the very least, an over-exaggeration. \u201cMcKenty obviously has reason to hope that businesses are moving away from AWS since it could mean more customers for Piston,\u201d Gohring writes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2617517\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Piston CTO Josh McKenty predicts a radical shift in the cloud computing space. Building off of his firm\u2019s recent product launch, McKenty \u2014 who cofounded Piston in January 2011 \u2014 tells IT World that he expects to see a \u201cgiant explosion of busine&#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-6992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6992","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=6992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}