{"id":11956,"date":"2013-12-13T23:05:47","date_gmt":"2013-12-14T05:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=11956"},"modified":"2013-12-13T23:11:42","modified_gmt":"2013-12-14T05:11:42","slug":"cloud-infrastructure-pricing-is-absurd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=11956","title":{"rendered":"Cloud infrastructure pricing is absurd"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The top <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/451-research-introduces-cloud-pricing-codex-to-help-cios-and-cfos-decipher-mystery-of-cloud-computing-costs-235007551.html\" target=\"_blank\">key finding of the 451 Research report<\/a>: \u201cCloud computing once promised simple, usage-based charging for resources, similar to other utilities such as electricity; unfortunately, the current reality is far from this ideal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The vendors further muddy the water by not being out front about their pricing; 451 Research found that only 64 percent of providers publish their pricing online.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itworld.com\/cloud-computing\/387149\/confirmed-cloud-iaas-pricing-absurd\">Confirmed: Cloud infrastructure pricing is absurd | ITworld<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The top key finding of the 451 Research report: \u201cCloud computing once promised simple, usage-based charging for resources, similar to other utilities such as electricity; unfortunately, the current reality is far from this ideal.\u201d The vendors further muddy the water &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=11956\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[378],"tags":[67,41,704,481],"class_list":["post-11956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marketing","tag-cloud-computing","tag-data-centers","tag-iaas","tag-pricing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11956"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11958,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11956\/revisions\/11958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}