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. ...
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 ...
“In IoT, scopes change and data insights evolve, so customers should always have the freedom to switch. 1NCE thinks it should be a fundamental right for customers to add or change a provider over the lifetime of an IoT project – even if that means leaving us,” said Ivo Rook, Chief...
“vendor lock-in.” This strategy relies on those vendors maintaining control of customer data, and forming draconian partnerships where the larger, established players leverage customer access as a means to control innovation and partner flexibility. This vendor stra...
There are a lot of good reasons to adopt a multicloud architecture. Avoiding provider lockin isn’t one of them. Here’s why
Vendor Lock In or Ignorant Design?發行項 2010/12/06 I often hear people say '”I’m not going to use Microsoft stuff because the don’t want to become victim of vendor lock in.” They often chose “open source” alternatives for pieces of the stack (web server and database to name ...
We believe that vendor independence is the key to putting our clients in control of their equipment, materials, building automation platforms, and, most importantly, their projects. Our vendor-neutral approach means we can select the best products, materials, and services that perfectly align with ...
Sure, the use of OpenId Connect means that adapting your clients to requests tokens from a different source should amount to a simple string update; that’s vastly better than if you’d have to switch between proprietary systems … which incidentally, is exactly what you’ll have to do to ...
Don't Let Vendor Lock-In Keep You Down Avoiding vendor lock-in means doing without certain applications or services, but you can adjust. Once you do, you will have more control over your computing. What vendors or products would you say are especially guilty of vendor lock-in? What alterna...