{"id":9674,"date":"2013-12-09T00:26:08","date_gmt":"2013-12-09T00:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2013\/dec\/09\/the-future-of-virtualisation-automation-orchestration-and-even-more-on-demand\/"},"modified":"2013-12-09T00:26:08","modified_gmt":"2013-12-09T00:26:08","slug":"the-future-of-virtualisation-automation-orchestration-and-even-more-on-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/the-future-of-virtualisation-automation-orchestration-and-even-more-on-demand\/","title":{"rendered":"The future of virtualisation: Automation, orchestration and even more on demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s official: virtualisation has made it. On the Gartner Hype Cycle for Cloud Services, it has scaled the &ldquo;peak of inflated expectations&rdquo;, traversed the &ldquo;trough of disillusionment&rdquo; and is inches from the much coveted &ldquo;plateau of productivity&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>For now, it remains on the &ldquo;slope of enlightenment&rdquo; &#8212; but it&rsquo;s a technology right on the cusp of an evolution that will expand its influence further than ever.<\/p>\n<p>The core concept of virtualisation, and its promise to increase efficiency by severing the link between hardware and software, has become common in informed businesses. Indeed, there&rsquo;s now a huge range of examples, among a broad set of industries that demonstrate how to quickly take advantage of it and hit the ground running.<\/p>\n<p>However, exploiting its full potential is not always trivial. Some of the larger and more enthusiastic businesses out there have the resources and expertise to write their own tools &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s official: virtualisation has made it. On the Gartner Hype Cycle for Cloud Services, it has scaled the &ldquo;peak of inflated expectations&rdquo;, traversed the &ldquo;trough of disillusionment&rdquo; and is inches from the much coveted &ldquo;pla&#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-9674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9674","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=9674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}