{"id":22484,"date":"2016-05-19T23:34:31","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T15:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=22484"},"modified":"2016-05-19T23:34:31","modified_gmt":"2016-05-19T15:34:31","slug":"cloud-technology-evolution-calls-better-responses-says-ibms-jason-mcgee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2016\/05\/19\/cloud-technology-evolution-calls-better-responses-says-ibms-jason-mcgee\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud technology evolution calls for better responses, says IBM\u2019s Jason McGee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>PHUKET, THAILAND \u2013 Cloud technology has evolved a lot in the past years. If \u2013 Jason McGee, VP and CTO of IBM Cloud Perform, said to <em>Upgrade Magazine<\/em> \u2013 in the past it was all about \u201cinfrastructure and efficiency \u2013 that is, how we can have infrastructure and run a business efficiently, it moved to now become a platform to innovate business models to see how fast businesses can deliver services to customers.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Cloud-evolution.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22485\" src=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Cloud-evolution.jpg\" alt=\"Cloud evolution\" width=\"620\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Cloud-evolution.jpg 620w, http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Cloud-evolution-300x279.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is also the reason why IBM itself continues to push for cloud use expansion, even as it continues to grow its global presence.<\/p>\n<p>For McGee, there are three interrelated issues that necessitate cloud evolution.<\/p>\n<p>First, \u201cthe volume of data is increasing dramatically,\u201d he said. Second, exactly because of the increase in data volume, \u201cthere\u2019s more unstructured data than in the past \u2013 whether that\u2019s unstructured text, video, whatever. There is, therefore, need to check new capabilities that will allow us new insights into the data that we gather.\u201d Third is \u201cthe actual data itself, since companies need to be able to be provided with access to data itself.<\/p>\n<p>Already, to address the further growth being eyed, IBM has 46 data centers around the world, with centers in Tokyo, Sydney, Singapore and Hong Kong in the Asia and Oceania regions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe cloud no longer just offers basic services; instead, it allows for higher capability,\u201d McGee ended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If \u2013 Jason McGee, VP and CTO of IBM Cloud Perform, said to Upgrade Magazine \u2013 in the past it was all about \u201cinfrastructure and efficiency \u2013 that is, how we can have infrastructure and run a business efficiently, it moved to now become a platform to innovate business models to see how fast businesses can deliver services to customers.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[107,1130,214,54],"class_list":["post-22484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-cloud","tag-cloud-technology","tag-ibm","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}