Armin Razavi12
How do you overcome vendor lock-in?
Doug Clark
look seriously at "open" standards such as provided by #openstack or the #cloudfoundryfoundation
Steve Strutt
#OpenStandards. Most cloud platforms today can potentially lock you in, which is why #IBM is working with #OpenStack for #IaaS and #CloudFoundry for #PaaS
Sam Garforth
payg and containers help avoid vendor lock in too
Jeffrey Borek
Also important to incorporate 'trust' into your vendor selection process. Hard at times to quantify, but if you look at the perceived Public leaders (Amazon, MS) you have to consider it.
Steve Strutt
That said there is amazing capabilities available on the cloud. Composable Services #PaaS allow you to pick and choose the best for your business and avoid lock in
Armin Razavi
@cloudstuff great technologies, but they require staff reskill. Together with process reeingineering needed for large enterprises, initial cost of adoption is quite high before real benefits are realised.
Steve Strutt
Lock is always a trade off against the unique value you can get from a vendor. Cloud is commoditising the basic function, the unqiue value is higher up
Steve Strutt
@cloudstuff good point on skills. Some are now redundant, others are reusable. #PaaS is not essential, I see clients using #DevOps and #agile to deliver #Java apps with the same developers
Kevin J. Allen
Great resource here on some of the evolving job roles for #cloud: http://bit.ly/Syed7v
Job roles to consider when moving to the cloud - Thoughts on Cloud
Moving to the cloud is more than a simple technical undertaking. Business impacts around governance, change management and day-to-day operations must all be considered, and this can sometimes be a challenge. To partly address this issue, IBM introduc...
Moving to the cloud is more than a simple technical undertaking. Business impacts around governance, change management and day-to-day operations must all be considered, and this can sometimes be a challenge. To partly address this issue, IBM introduc...