{"id":7042,"date":"2013-04-17T23:23:10","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T23:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2013\/apr\/18\/open-cloud-creating-new-opportunities-for-enterprise-storage\/"},"modified":"2013-04-17T23:23:10","modified_gmt":"2013-04-17T23:23:10","slug":"open-cloud-creating-new-opportunities-for-enterprise-storage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/open-cloud-creating-new-opportunities-for-enterprise-storage\/","title":{"rendered":"Open cloud: Creating new opportunities for enterprise storage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An open cloud must have freely accessible, open application programming interfaces (APIs), the freedom to move data between providers at will and no on-site hardware requirement, according to Alex Williams writing at TechCrunch.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And an open cloud is federated, meaning that your organization can move data, images and files across multiple cloud environments at will.<\/p>\n<p>These factors make the cloud a perfect platform for storage solutions, especially open-source storage solutions. The cost savings of open-source software and the cost efficiencies of cloud storage software create a &#8220;perfect storm&#8221; for organizations, bringing greater cost savings, better security, higher quality software and the ability for businesses to avoid vendor &#8220;lock-in,&#8221; according to Williams.<\/p>\n<p>Whether you&rsquo;re a corporation, a service provider, a research lab, a university, a major enterprise, a midsized business or an SMB, adopting an open source storage solution and leveraging the support of a global open source community is &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An open cloud must have freely accessible, open application programming interfaces (APIs), the freedom to move data between providers at will and no on-site hardware requirement, according to Alex Williams writing at TechCrunch.&nbsp;<br \/>\nAnd an open cloud&#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-7042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7042","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=7042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}