{"id":9987,"date":"2014-01-14T00:47:47","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T00:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2014\/jan\/14\/six-best-cloudtechs-favourite-stories-web\/"},"modified":"2014-01-14T00:47:47","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T00:47:47","slug":"six-of-the-best-cloudtechs-favourite-stories-from-the-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/six-of-the-best-cloudtechs-favourite-stories-from-the-web\/","title":{"rendered":"Six of the best: CloudTech\u2019s favourite stories from the web"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>January is always a strange time of year at CloudTech HQ; the Consumer Electronics Show signifies the last vestiges of the holiday break, with the industry firmly awoken from its hibernal slumber to press ahead with 2014 deliverables.<\/p>\n<p>As a result there&rsquo;s plenty to find across the web &ndash; here are our favourite pieces from the last fortnight:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1) Salesforce CEO praises Oracle, slams Microsoft, and hints at analytics acquisitions [Venture Beat]: <\/strong>&nbsp;Amid the Vegas glitz of CES, over in Manhattan Salesforce kicked off its Salesforce1 World Tour. The ensuing roundtable provided a litany of quotable opinion from CEO Marc Benioff.<\/p>\n<p>Benioff called Steve Ballmer&rsquo;s resignation &ldquo;a very good decision&#8230;but it&rsquo;s probably five years too late&rdquo;, while adding that Microsoft &ldquo;need[s] to push the rest button on vision.&rdquo; Yet the Salesforce chief was more salutary about Oracle, saying that its tech was &ldquo;an important part of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January is always a strange time of year at CloudTech HQ; the Consumer Electronics Show signifies the last vestiges of the holiday break, with the industry firmly awoken from its hibernal slumber to press ahead with 2014 deliverables.<br \/>\nAs a result there&#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-9987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9987","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=9987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}