{"id":9365,"date":"2013-11-03T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-03T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2856196"},"modified":"2013-11-03T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-03T17:00:00","slug":"gartners-trends-for-2014-the-hybrid-cloud-the-role-of-it-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/gartners-trends-for-2014-the-hybrid-cloud-the-role-of-it-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Gartner&rsquo;s Trends for 2014 &ndash; The Hybrid Cloud &amp; the Role of IT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago, Gartner shared its list of top 10 technology trends for 2014, including among its expectations one entitled: \u201cHybrid cloud and IT as Service Broker.\u201d This prediction speaks to what Gartner views as the necessity of the hybrid cloud \u2013 a mix of private cloud combined with external public cloud services \u2013 along with the role of IT evolving to include that of Cloud Service Broker.<br \/>\nThe notion of IT serving as Cloud Service Broker means IT going beyond its traditional services to making strategic decisions on cloud adoption, particularly as cloud-bursting (outgrowing private cloud) becomes necessary for more enterprises. IT departments will be leading the customization and integration of their enterprise\u2019s cloud expansion, regardless of where a cloud application resides.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2856196\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago, Gartner shared its list of top 10 technology trends for 2014, including among its expectations one entitled: &ldquo;Hybrid cloud and IT as Service Broker.&rdquo; This prediction speaks to what Gartner views as the necessity of the hybrid cloud &ndash; a mix of private cloud combined with external public cloud services &ndash; along with the role of IT evolving to include that of Cloud Service Broker.<br \/>\nThe notion of IT serving as Cloud Service Broker means IT going beyond its traditional services to making strategic decisions on cloud adoption, particularly as cloud-bursting (outgrowing private cloud) becomes necessary for more enterprises. IT departments will be leading the customization and integration of their enterprise&rsquo;s cloud expansion, regardless of where a cloud application resides.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2856196\" 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-9365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9365","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=9365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}