Gusts of Alteration From Hawker To Meta Cloud

Abstract

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.   The cloud computing paradigm has achieved widespread adoption in recent years. Its success is due largely to customers’ ability to use services on demand with a pay-as-you go pricing model, which has proved convenient in many respects. Low costs and high flexibility make migrating to the cloud compelling. Despite its obvious advantages, however, many companies hesitate to “move to the cloud,†mainly because of concerns related to service availability, data lock-in, and legal uncertainties. Lock in is particularly problematic. For one thing, even though public cloud availability is generally high, outages still occur. Businesses locked into such a cloud are essentially at a standstill until the cloud is back online.