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Microsoft's Cloud Computing Patent Application

Lock-in to a single vendor can be addressed using a Cloud Service Broker solution
By Mark O'Neill
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December 10, 2009 09:45 PM EST
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Today, Alexander Wolfe has been speculating about Microsoft's patent application regarding data migration between cloud services.

Although on the face of it, a patent for Cloud migration would appear to be aimed at removing the lock-in associated with a single vendor, the patent application is in fact aimed within a single vendor system.



So, it doesn't address the Cloud lock-in problem which has been identified by ENISA as the #1 risk of cloud computing

Lock-in to a single vendor can be addressed using a Cloud Service Broker solution which mitigates against the use of a single Cloud service by brokering the connection up to the Cloud service, allowing a switch-over at the interface level to a back-up Cloud service in the event of service failure.

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Mark O'Neill is Chief Technology Office of Vordel. Vordel connects applications to applications, businesses to other businesses, and SOA to Cloud Computing. A regular speaker at industry conferences and a contributor to SOA World Magazine and Cloud Computing Journal, Mark holds a degree in mathematics and psychology from Trinity College Dublin and graduate qualifications in neural network programming from Oxford University.

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