{"id":7534,"date":"2013-05-24T07:25:06","date_gmt":"2013-05-24T07:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2013\/may\/24\/latest-cloud-computing-report-shows-benefits-exceed-expectations\/"},"modified":"2013-05-24T07:25:06","modified_gmt":"2013-05-24T07:25:06","slug":"latest-cloud-computing-report-shows-benefits-exceed-expectations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/latest-cloud-computing-report-shows-benefits-exceed-expectations\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest cloud computing report shows benefits exceed expectations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A report from CA Technologies, entitled &lsquo;Cloud Succeeds. Now What?&rsquo; has revealed that, for many companies polled, their cloud solutions have been more successful than they were expecting.<\/p>\n<p>The train of thought here, of course, has to wonder what those expectations were, especially in a week where service level agreements (SLAs) are at the forefront following 100% SLA provider Mimecast&rsquo;s outage.<\/p>\n<p>Yet for companies experienced with cloud, the report notes that more sophisticated systems are being demanded, such as end-to-end automation, more flexible service-level management and &ndash; the big one &ndash; the ability to flip between CSPs.<\/p>\n<p>The report defines &lsquo;experience&rsquo; pretty highly, as should be expected for ushering in cloud&rsquo;s maturation: four years and a minimum of three platforms utilised.<\/p>\n<p>Unsurprisingly, software as a service (SaaS) is still the most popular platform, utilised by 68% in EMEA and 94% in the US. However, across the EMEA region, platform as &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A report from CA Technologies, entitled &lsquo;Cloud Succeeds. Now What?&rsquo; has revealed that, for many companies polled, their cloud solutions have been more successful than they were expecting.<br \/>\nThe train of thought here, of course, has to wonder &#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-7534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7534","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=7534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}