{"id":9310,"date":"2013-10-30T17:57:53","date_gmt":"2013-10-30T17:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2846258"},"modified":"2013-10-30T17:57:53","modified_gmt":"2013-10-30T17:57:53","slug":"anne-altman-open-standards-key-to-cloud-collaboration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/anne-altman-open-standards-key-to-cloud-collaboration\/","title":{"rendered":"Anne Altman: Open Standards Key to Cloud Collaboration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IBM Federal General Manager Anne Altman pens an op-ed on how governments looking to adopt new communication technologies for public service should make sure they are buying products that are modular.<br \/>\nGovernments looking to adopt new communication technologies for public service should make sure they are buying products that are modular, scalable and widely compatible, IBM Federal General Manager Anne Altman writes for Federal Times.<br \/>\nAltman cautioned agencies against purchasing \u201cdead end\u201d software that could potentially end collaboration between federal agencies instead of encouraging it.<br \/>\nShe noted that early adoption into cloud environments may be forcing some enterprises into using \u201cproprietary, closed and often more expensive methods of computing.\u201d<br \/>\nHaving open standards is one way forward, according to Altman.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2846258\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IBM Federal General Manager Anne Altman pens an op-ed on how governments looking to adopt new communication technologies for public service should make sure they are buying products that are modular.<br \/>\nGovernments looking to adopt new communication technologies for public service should make sure they are buying products that are modular, scalable and widely compatible, IBM Federal General Manager Anne Altman writes for Federal Times.<br \/>\nAltman cautioned agencies against purchasing &ldquo;dead end&rdquo; software that could potentially end collaboration between federal agencies instead of encouraging it.<br \/>\nShe noted that early adoption into cloud environments may be forcing some enterprises into using &ldquo;proprietary, closed and often more expensive methods of computing.&rdquo;<br \/>\nHaving open standards is one way forward, according to Altman.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2846258\" 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-9310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9310","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=9310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}