{"id":7601,"date":"2013-05-30T23:23:12","date_gmt":"2013-05-30T23:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2013\/may\/31\/voice-cloud-there-identity-crisis\/"},"modified":"2013-05-30T23:23:12","modified_gmt":"2013-05-30T23:23:12","slug":"voice-in-the-cloud-is-there-an-identity-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/voice-in-the-cloud-is-there-an-identity-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Voice in the cloud &#8211; is there an identity crisis?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As time goes on we are, without question, witnessing acceleration in the adoption of services being purchased as mainstream alternatives to on-premise, on a global scale. Whatever buyers are looking for, from CRM to business backup, a cloud option is out there.<\/p>\n<p>It is the term &lsquo;cloud&rsquo; that has won the battle to describe anything that isn&rsquo;t located within a client&rsquo;s physical location. However, issues have arisen because there are many variations of technology that fall within this offsite category including &lsquo;hosted&rsquo; and &lsquo;colocation&rsquo;. The generic definition associated with &lsquo;cloud&rsquo; causes confusion not only amongst the industry but, most importantly, for customers.<\/p>\n<p>Businesses trying to decide if cloud technology will play a part in the total IT infrastructure of their organisation face an even bigger challenge by the variation in definition. This is even more critical when choosing a solution for a service as business critical as voice &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As time goes on we are, without question, witnessing acceleration in the adoption of services being purchased as mainstream alternatives to on-premise, on a global scale. Whatever buyers are looking for, from CRM to business backup, a cloud option is o&#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-7601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7601","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=7601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}