{"id":8879,"date":"2013-09-17T23:24:24","date_gmt":"2013-09-17T23:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2013\/sep\/18\/head-cloud-or-head-clouds\/"},"modified":"2013-09-17T23:24:24","modified_gmt":"2013-09-17T23:24:24","slug":"head-of-the-cloud-or-head-in-the-clouds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/head-of-the-cloud-or-head-in-the-clouds\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Head of the cloud&#8217;, or head in the clouds?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Eoin Jennings, general manager hosting services, Easynet Global Services<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A little learning is a dangerous thing, scribed poet Alexander Pope in 1711, possibly to distract his wife from improving her bible studies knowledge or honing her counterpoint skills.<\/p>\n<p>Three hundred years later and whilst most of us no longer frown upon a lady flashing her ankles nor rush to join a harpsichord recital, never could the statement be truer.<\/p>\n<p>Smartphones and tablets have brought about the collision of the worlds of IT and telecoms, and are responsible for us all knowing a little bit about IT.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If we can find &lsquo;Settings&rsquo; on our iPhones, we can find &lsquo;Control Panel&rsquo; in windows or &lsquo;Internet Options&rsquo; in Explorer, delve in and make the changes we want, removing the need for the IT helpdesk &ndash; blissfully unaware that we&rsquo;re putting our organisation at risk. In businesses across the globe, CIOs are breaking &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Eoin Jennings, general manager hosting services, Easynet Global Services<br \/>\nA little learning is a dangerous thing, scribed poet Alexander Pope in 1711, possibly to distract his wife from improving her bible studies knowledge or honing her counterpoint&#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-8879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8879","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=8879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}