{"id":8969,"date":"2013-09-24T13:20:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-24T13:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/blog-hub\/2013\/sep\/24\/is-cloud-computing-meeting-its-expectations\/"},"modified":"2013-09-24T13:20:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-24T13:20:00","slug":"is-cloud-computing-meeting-its-expectations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/is-cloud-computing-meeting-its-expectations\/","title":{"rendered":"Is cloud computing meeting its expectations?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One issue relative to cloud computing that keeps critics well fed is the degree to which expectations and realities of the technology all too often don&rsquo;t sync. Add to the mix a large degree of expected hype around buzzy marketing concepts, and what companies expect going into switching to cloud and what they get can feel problematically let-down-ish.<\/p>\n<p>So what does the internet think?<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4672\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 419px;\">\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Excerpt from the Facebook Cloud Computing Group<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Facebook surprisingly chimed in with some of the most rapid responses.<\/p>\n<p>The NSA scandal made an appearance, as did security in the &ldquo;failing expectations&rdquo; corner of the arena.<\/p>\n<p>PRISM aside, security is still a chief concern for many IT departments. However, cloud security is also a nuanced issue, not a catchall concept.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, any industry dealing with client information, proprietary personal information, patient health records, or those who does not want their infrastructure hacked (which should include &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One issue relative to cloud computing that keeps critics well fed is the degree to which expectations and realities of the technology all too often don&rsquo;t sync. Add to the mix a large degree of expected hype around buzzy marketing concepts, and wh&#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-8969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8969","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=8969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}