{"id":8412,"date":"2013-07-28T23:22:54","date_gmt":"2013-07-28T23:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2013\/jul\/29\/sdn-and-going-beyond-cloud-top-digital-trends-2013-says-accenture\/"},"modified":"2013-07-28T23:22:54","modified_gmt":"2013-07-28T23:22:54","slug":"sdn-and-going-beyond-the-cloud-top-digital-trends-for-2013-says-accenture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/sdn-and-going-beyond-the-cloud-top-digital-trends-for-2013-says-accenture\/","title":{"rendered":"SDN and going \u201cbeyond the cloud\u201d top digital trends for 2013, says Accenture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Software defined networking (SDN), as well as moving &ldquo;beyond the cloud&rdquo;, are two of the seven technology trends which will change the game for enterprise, according to the latest industry report.<\/p>\n<p>For companies looking to take the next step and move ahead of the competition, establishing a sophisticated digital strategy is paramount. This much we already know of course, but IT consultancy firm Accenture has gone a step further and noted the trends underpinning it &ndash; with SDN featuring heavily.<\/p>\n<p>This could be the start of a real paradigm shift. Companies are certainly noticing that simply migrating to the cloud isn&rsquo;t enough to be a business game changer &ndash; it&rsquo;s what you do with it that counts.<\/p>\n<p>And this is reflected in the Accenture paper. &ldquo;The value lies in putting the cloud to work,&rdquo; the report notes, adding: &ldquo;No vision would be complete without commenting on the cloud.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The technology &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Software defined networking (SDN), as well as moving &ldquo;beyond the cloud&rdquo;, are two of the seven technology trends which will change the game for enterprise, according to the latest industry report.<br \/>\nFor companies looking to take the next step &#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-8412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8412","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=8412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}