{"id":7441,"date":"2013-05-16T23:23:22","date_gmt":"2013-05-16T23:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2013\/may\/17\/how-data-centre-evolves-cloud-infographic\/"},"modified":"2013-05-16T23:23:22","modified_gmt":"2013-05-16T23:23:22","slug":"how-the-data-centre-evolves-to-the-cloud-infographic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/how-the-data-centre-evolves-to-the-cloud-infographic\/","title":{"rendered":"How the data centre evolves to the cloud [infographic]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As anyone with a vested interest in cloud computing will know, the perception of the data centre has evolved considerably, from isolated resource centres to more connected pools, helping maximise IT efficiency.<\/p>\n<p>Not surprisingly, with the potential available, the numbers are growing. 60% of server workloads are set to be virtualised by 2014, compared to only 12% in 2008m, with total investment in data centre infrastructure growing 5% on average year on year.<\/p>\n<p>There are, of course, pros and cons to virtualisation, with companies continuing to balance out efficiency and agility against security considerations.<\/p>\n<p>Network solutions provider Ciena, in an infographic, has stated that &ldquo;the cloud is only as good as the network that supports it,&rdquo; calling its solution a &ldquo;data centre without walls&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>Find out the journey from data centre to cloud in the infographic below (click to enlarge):<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As anyone with a vested interest in cloud computing will know, the perception of the data centre has evolved considerably, from isolated resource centres to more connected pools, helping maximise IT efficiency.<br \/>\nNot surprisingly, with the potential avai&#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-7441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7441","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=7441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}