{"id":8221,"date":"2013-07-08T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-08T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2722109"},"modified":"2013-07-08T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-08T11:00:00","slug":"how-to-take-your-enterprise-applications-to-the-cloud-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/how-to-take-your-enterprise-applications-to-the-cloud-2\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Take Your Enterprise Applications to the Cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With so many stories about cloud computing, IT outsourcing, hosting, SaaS solutions and managed services, we should all be well beyond the question of whether organizations should be moving their enterprise applications to the cloud. For those companies that have not yet started to move these applications outside of their own four walls or, worse yet, have yet to develop a plan to do so, a window is ever shrinking on your ability to keep up with your competitors. Why? Because unless your value proposition to your customers is managing data centers, connectivity, routers, firewalls, servers, storage, backups, operating systems, databases, applications, etc., you\u2019ll always be a step or maybe even two or three behind cloud service providers that do this day in and day out as part of their core business model.<br \/>\nWhen an organization moves its enterprise applications to the cloud and it\u2019s done right, the benefits are compelling and real. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2722109\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With so many stories about cloud computing, IT outsourcing, hosting, SaaS solutions and managed services, we should all be well beyond the question of whether organizations should be moving their enterprise applications to the cloud. For those companies that have not yet started to move these applications outside of their own four walls or, worse yet, have yet to develop a plan to do so, a window is ever shrinking on your ability to keep up with your competitors. Why? Because unless your value proposition to your customers is managing data centers, connectivity, routers, firewalls, servers, storage, backups, operating systems, databases, applications, etc., you&rsquo;ll always be a step or maybe even two or three behind cloud service providers that do this day in and day out as part of their core business model.<br \/>\nWhen an organization moves its enterprise applications to the cloud and it&rsquo;s done right, the benefits are compelling and real. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2722109\" 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-8221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8221","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=8221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}