{"id":8600,"date":"2013-08-16T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-16T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/blog-hub\/2013\/aug\/16\/a-guide-to-successful-cloud-adoption-market-for-it-services\/"},"modified":"2013-08-16T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-16T10:00:00","slug":"a-guide-to-successful-cloud-adoption-the-market-for-it-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/a-guide-to-successful-cloud-adoption-the-market-for-it-services\/","title":{"rendered":"A guide to successful cloud adoption: The market for IT services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, I met with a number of our top clients near the GreenPages HQ in Portsmouth, NH at our annual Summit event to talk about successful adoption of cloud technologies. In this post, I&rsquo;ll give a summary of my cloud adoption advice, and cover some of the feedback that I heard from customers during my discussions. Here we go&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><em>The Market for IT Services<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&nbsp;see compute infrastructure looking more and more like a commodity, and that there is intense competition in the market for IT services, particularly Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS).<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>&ldquo;<strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Every day<\/span><\/strong>, Amazon installs as much computing capacity in AWS as it used to run all of Amazon in 2002, when it was a $3.9 billion company.&rdquo; &ndash; <em>CIO Journal, May 2013<\/em><\/li>\n<li>&ldquo;[Amazon] has dropped the price of renting dedicated virtual server instances on its EC2 compute cloud by up to 80 percent [&hellip;]&nbsp; <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">from $10 to $2 per &#8230;<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, I met with a number of our top clients near the GreenPages HQ in Portsmouth, NH at our annual Summit event to talk about successful adoption of cloud technologies. In this post, I&rsquo;ll give a summary of my cloud adoption advice, and cove&#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-8600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8600","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=8600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}