{"id":7629,"date":"2013-06-03T12:45:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-03T12:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2681570"},"modified":"2013-06-03T12:45:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-03T12:45:00","slug":"cloud-is-all-about-simplicity-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/cloud-is-all-about-simplicity-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud Is All About Simplicity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;For organizations just getting started the move to cloud is about rapidly turning on IT infrastructure,&#8221; said Nicos Vekiarides, CEO &#038; Co-Founder of TwinStrata, in this exclusive Q&#038;A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. &#8220;For mature organizations where IT has started to become unwieldy,&#8221; Vekiarides continued, &#8220;it is about cost and administrative savings.&#8221;<br \/>\nCloud Computing Journal: The move to cloud isn&#8217;t about saving money, it is about saving time \u2013 agree or disagree?<br \/>\nNicos Vekiarides: I would say that it is a combination of both.<br \/>\nRamp-up time is a very important consideration for organizations deciding whether to deploy IT infrastructure locally or in the cloud. Saving time is particularly compelling for organizations in the midst of new &#8220;green field&#8221; deployments, where data center space needs to be built out. Without the need to purchase and deploy any infrastructure, cloud reduces the ramp-up cycle dramatically.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2681570\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;For organizations just getting started the move to cloud is about rapidly turning on IT infrastructure,&#8221; said Nicos Vekiarides, CEO &amp; Co-Founder of TwinStrata, in this exclusive Q&amp;A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. &#8220;For mature organizations where IT has started to become unwieldy,&#8221; Vekiarides continued, &#8220;it is about cost and administrative savings.&#8221;<br \/>\nCloud Computing Journal: The move to cloud isn&#8217;t about saving money, it is about saving time &ndash; agree or disagree?<br \/>\nNicos Vekiarides: I would say that it is a combination of both.<br \/>\nRamp-up time is a very important consideration for organizations deciding whether to deploy IT infrastructure locally or in the cloud. Saving time is particularly compelling for organizations in the midst of new &#8220;green field&#8221; deployments, where data center space needs to be built out. Without the need to purchase and deploy any infrastructure, cloud reduces the ramp-up cycle dramatically.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2681570\" target=\"_blank\">read more<\/a><\/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-7629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7629","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=7629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}