Cloud experts call for global standards on data portability
July 29, 2013
Grazed from BusinessCloud News. Author: Jonathan Brandon.
International standard development bodies and governments need to work together on the development of protocols to help users migrate their data from one cloud provider to another, according to Manas Kumar, chief executive officer of Optimizer HQ.
One of the chief benefits of the commoditised, pay-as-you-grow / pay-as-you-consume model prominent within cloud computing is that it enables a certain degree of protection from lock-in. But Kumar believes that in the same way governments have moved to regulate phone number portability, a set of global industry standards are required to ensure customers can move data from one provider to another without having to deal with proprietary encryption, a key disincentive to leaving a service provider…
“Storing files and information in the cloud is becoming mainstream among thousands of businesses but little has been publicised about the issues around exporting data from one provider to another or moving business from one provider to another using a common language of exchange,” Kumar said…
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