{"id":8459,"date":"2013-07-31T14:28:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-31T14:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2750075"},"modified":"2013-07-31T14:28:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-31T14:28:00","slug":"which-came-first-the-server-or-the-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/which-came-first-the-server-or-the-network\/","title":{"rendered":"Which Came First, the Server or the Network?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cloud computing, developed more than eight years ago, has become a multi-billion dollar segment of the IT services market. However, the original server-centric model, used to provide low cost computing, is giving way to a new network-centric model that will deliver better performance and control at an even lower cost.<br \/>\nAccording to Gartner\u2019s Forecast Overview: Public Cloud Services, Worldwide, 2011-2016, 4Q Update, the public cloud IaaS market is expected to grow by 47% \u2013 from $6 billion in 2012 to $9 billion in 2013. As this market has grown, hundreds of service providers of every size have stepped forward to offer \u201cbest-effort\u201d cloud services. While a market for these services clearly exists, most of them don\u2019t meet the enterprise requirements for a more reliable and secure computing platform. The challenge lies in end users having to use server virtualization technologies to solve problems better addressed by networks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2750075\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cloud computing, developed more than eight years ago, has become a multi-billion dollar segment of the IT services market. However, the original server-centric model, used to provide low cost computing, is giving way to a new network-centric model that will deliver better performance and control at an even lower cost.<br \/>\nAccording to Gartner&rsquo;s Forecast Overview: Public Cloud Services, Worldwide, 2011-2016, 4Q Update, the public cloud IaaS market is expected to grow by 47% &ndash; from $6 billion in 2012 to $9 billion in 2013. As this market has grown, hundreds of service providers of every size have stepped forward to offer &ldquo;best-effort&rdquo; cloud services. While a market for these services clearly exists, most of them don&rsquo;t meet the enterprise requirements for a more reliable and secure computing platform. The challenge lies in end users having to use server virtualization technologies to solve problems better addressed by networks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2750075\" 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-8459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8459","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=8459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}