Author: Patrick Assheton-Smith

The benefits of the cloud are, by now, well-known to CIOs and IT managers – cost effectiveness, scalability, dynamic operations, quick-to-deploy systems, agility, flexibility and more. Of course, the paradox of the cloud is that while it offers so many advantages to companies, its very nature also enables vendors to achieve a level of lock-in that is at odds with this, making things rather turbulent. This is because certain vendors streamline the process of migrating workloads to their cloud, which makes it a tantalising proposition to the customer. However, they then proceed to tie customer data and applications to their…

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