{"id":7482,"date":"2013-05-21T16:31:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T16:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2668402"},"modified":"2013-05-21T16:31:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-21T16:31:00","slug":"the-real-value-of-cloud-computing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/the-real-value-of-cloud-computing\/","title":{"rendered":"The Real Value of Cloud Computing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cCloud has everything to do with what has happened with Big Data,\u201d explained Jason Deck, Director of Strategic Alliances at Logicworks, in this exclusive Q&#038;A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. \u201cBig Data doesn\u2019t exist in its easily accessible way without cloud. From reduced startup costs, to cheap storage, to fast processing, to adequate security, to the easy incorporation of third-party analytics tools, cloud made Big Data accessible to customers of all sizes, with all different budgets.\u201d<br \/>\nCloud Computing Journal: The move to cloud isn&#8217;t about saving money, it is about saving time. \u2013 Agree or disagree?<br \/>\nJason Deck: The move to cloud is not specifically about money or time. The real value of cloud computing is in giving a business the platform to create real operational agility, so an organization can focus economic and human resources on the most valuable parts of its business. Cloud does save time and it does save money but, above all, it provides a company with agility to respond to its competitors and test out new ideas with minimal risk, all while being certain sensitive data are secure and compliant.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2668402\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cCloud has everything to do with what has happened with Big Data,\u201d explained Jason Deck, Director of Strategic Alliances at Logicworks, in this exclusive Q&amp;A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. \u201cBig Data doesn\u2019t exist in its easily &#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-7482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7482","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=7482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}