{"id":8421,"date":"2013-07-29T14:12:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-29T14:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2748426"},"modified":"2013-07-29T14:12:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-29T14:12:00","slug":"disruptive-it-forces-that-are-changing-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/disruptive-it-forces-that-are-changing-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Disruptive IT Forces that Are Changing Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today four converging IT trends are changing the IT paradigm and will forever change the way businesses communicate, collaborate, store and manage information. Each on its own would have significant impact without the others. However, combined together, they are a disruptive force.<br \/>\nThey are:<br \/>\nMobile devices (BYOD) are becoming a universal portal for individual access to personal and business information.<br \/>\nSocial media has moved beyond its initial use case (our kids) to infiltrate businesses for data access, business collaboration, Business to Consumer and more recently Business to Business communication.<br \/>\nInformation growth (volume) with rapid access (velocity) from multiple sources (variety) continues unabated and is enabling \u2018Big Data\u2019 as predicted a few years ago.<br \/>\nCloud is becoming increasingly more mainstream from a compute, data retention and access perspective, enabling global information access.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2748426\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today four converging IT trends are changing the IT paradigm and will forever change the way businesses communicate, collaborate, store and manage information. Each on its own would have significant impact without the others. However, combined together, they are a disruptive force.<br \/>\nThey are:<br \/>\nMobile devices (BYOD) are becoming a universal portal for individual access to personal and business information.<br \/>\nSocial media has moved beyond its initial use case (our kids) to infiltrate businesses for data access, business collaboration, Business to Consumer and more recently Business to Business communication.<br \/>\nInformation growth (volume) with rapid access (velocity) from multiple sources (variety) continues unabated and is enabling &lsquo;Big Data&rsquo; as predicted a few years ago.<br \/>\nCloud is becoming increasingly more mainstream from a compute, data retention and access perspective, enabling global information access.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2748426\" 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-8421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8421","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=8421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}