First, here’s a broad and common definition: Vendor lock-in means having to rely on one company for a product or service because switching to other options would be too costly in terms of money and interruption in business operations. And here’s an example (keeping it light, for now):...
The article discusses panel discussion at the AlwaysOn Silicon Valley Innovation Summit held in California on July 9, 2015. Topics discussed include Abe Kleinfeld of firm GridGain, re...
Vendor lock-in means that customers are dependent on the products and services of a provider. Changing the provider is only possible with great effort and high costs and is therefore unlikely. In data storage and archiving, vendor lock-ins are often seen in hardware and software. Due to the...
How to avoid vendor lock-in There are several things that customers can do to avoid vendor lock-in, including the following: Choose products and services that use openstandards. Open standards arestandardsthat are not controlled by any one vendor. This means that products and services that use ...
Vendor lock-in occurs when access to a certain type of product, service, or data is limited to the paying customers of a single vendor — in essence, a “walled garden.” While it rarely means that users are completely incapable of leaving the “garden,” typically the cost — in time,...
I get it. Lock-in means placing major bets on specific technology providers, in this case, the cloud providers. The potential nightmare scenario is that a vendor’s prices might get substantially raised at any time, and budgets are tightly coupled to the pricing whims of the primary public ...
Containerization sets your application free, removing the fear of being ensnared in a solitary platform. In the pursuit of PaaS autonomy, the mantra is "loose coupling." Modular architecture means breaking down your application into distinct, independent components. This approach infuses your ...
Vendor lock-in occurs when access to a type of product or service is limited to the paying customer of a single vendor. Find out how to avoid it.
Cloud Computing Means Vendor Lock-In, but It's Not All Bad The article discusses panel discussion at the AlwaysOn Silicon Valley Innovation Summit held in California on July 9, 2015. Topics discussed include Abe Kleinfeld of firm GridGain, regarding the need for companies to invest in cloud ...
"We have to fly in formation," said Darlene Williams, senior vice president and CIO at Rocket Software, an IT modernization software company based in Waltham, Mass. Close coordination means partners must understand her company's business imperatives, Williams said. With that knowledge, they can ...