When and Why Does Portability Matter? Exploring Multi-cloud, Open Source and Cloud Switching Costs
summary
Evidence that portability matters now: vendor lock‑in is a growing cost—Wakefield interviews 400 IT decision‑makers find 78% say lock‑in blocks cloud adoption—while RightScale reports 82% running multiple clouds. Open source Cloud Foundry plus BOSH create a portable stack: BOSH acts as a travel adapter and certified providers let apps move unchanged. Anynines migrates a 120‑app platform twice (VMware→OpenStack, OpenStack→AWS) with ~30 minutes downtime, showing multi‑cloud can be practical and cost‑effective.
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chapters (33)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:40Agenda
- 1:03Story Time
- 2:21Uncomfortable Decisions
- 2:52Wakefield Research
- 3:18What is Lockin
- 4:15Captive Market
- 5:18Good Service
- 6:12Impact of Global Service
- 6:35Utility Service
- 7:17Complex Systems
- 8:19Competitive Advantage
- 8:50Abstraction
- 10:12Unmet demand
- 10:42Private to public
- 10:56Hybrid cloud
- 11:30Customers thoughts
- 11:45Gartner Magic Quadrant
- 11:58The shrinking island
- 12:26Azure is good enough
- 12:53Pricing is slowing down
- 13:16Where are we so far
- 14:06Open Source
- 14:44Cloud Foundry
- 15:32Rich of Locking
- 15:49Bosch Travel Adapter
- 16:14Modularity
- 16:50Who is paying attention
- 17:31Anynines
- 19:28Looking Forward
- 20:33Managing Switching Costs
- 20:49Wrap Up
- 21:27DNS
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