Portable Cloud Apps Require Standards, Vendor Research, by Christine Parizo (@cparizo). In this article, Christine explores how to avoid vendor lock-in to maintain a key IT requirement: portability. When teams switch from a public cloud to in-house or another cloud, IT that doesn’t engage in thorough research may find themselves unable to transport critical data outside of their system. The lack of cloud-specific standards means APIs with varying levels of access and different sets of rules are the norm for transporting data in the cloud. As an important part of researching cloud app portability, Scribe’s Betsy Bilhorn reminds companies to always check vendor’s own tools for migrating their data, because “Your ability to get [your] data is really only as good as the API or export tool that the vendor is going to supply.” Companies also need to look at the tools vendors provide for migrating their data, according to Betsy Bilhorn, vice president of product management at Manchester, N.H.-based software provider Scribe. “Your ability to get [your] data is really only as good as the API or export tool that the vendor is going to supply,” she said. Read the full article at techtarget.com!
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