{"id":7964,"date":"2013-06-26T11:10:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T11:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2013\/jun\/26\/time-change-always-now\/"},"modified":"2013-06-26T11:10:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T11:10:00","slug":"time-for-a-change-is-always-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/time-for-a-change-is-always-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Time for a change is always now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is often said that Europeans are more conservative in their outlook with regard to change.<\/p>\n<p>There are&nbsp;occasions when this is a useful cultural trait, like limiting the rampant commercialisation of fine heritage sites or taking care to uphold a traditional method for creating a really good cheese. But&nbsp;when it comes to technology resistance to change it only brings disaster.<\/p>\n<p>Nowhere is this clearer than in relation to cloud computing. The &ldquo;readiness for the cloud&rsquo; debate is so bound up in what we<em> think <\/em>it is today NOT what it actually delivers and the clear and unambiguous direction it is heading towards &#8211; That if they keep debating instead of doing, swathes of business will still be pontificating in empty boardrooms as the bailiffs come to take their chairs away.<\/p>\n<p>For many the &#8216;cloud&#8217; means re-writing their apps, putting their data somewhere outside, and in some cases it will &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is often said that Europeans are more conservative in their outlook with regard to change.<br \/>\nThere are&nbsp;occasions when this is a useful cultural trait, like limiting the rampant commercialisation of fine heritage sites or taking care to uphold a t&#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-7964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7964","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=7964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}