Winds of Change: From Vendor Lock-In to the Meta Cloud
Benjamin Satzger, Waldemar Hummer, Christian Inzinger, Philipp Leitner, Schahram Dustdar · IEEE Internet Computing · 2013
The emergence of yet more cloud offerings from a multitude of service providers calls for a meta cloud to smoothen the edges of the jagged cloud landscape. This meta cloud could solve the vendor lock-in problems that current public and hybrid cloud users face.