How to avoid lock-in and ensure data portability in the cloud
February 14, 2014
Grazed from GCN. Author: Rob Sax, John Reeher.
In 2012, a Government Accountability Office report outlined seven major challenges to adopting the Office of Management and Budget’s cloud-first policy for IT deployments. Of these, ensuring data portability and interoperability within the cloud is the most daunting due to the large number of competing cloud technologies for data storage and retrieval.
Despite the many options available, a lack of mature and open computing standards for data interoperability has hindered cloud adoption. Each technology carries the risk of cloud provider lock-in that creates impediments to easily moving data into, around and out of the cloud…
Lock-in has the potential to obstruct portability and interoperability, so it has been a significant source of frustration for organizations looking to take advantage of the many proven benefits of cloud computing. Despite the many obstacles to data portability, however, existing tools and techniques can help manage data in the cloud, keep it accessible and portable and ensure cross-provider compatibility…
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