Winds of Change: From Vendor Lock-In to the Meta Cloud

Satzger, Benjamin and Hummer, Waldemar and Inzinger, Christian and Leitner, Philipp and Dustdar, Schahram

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.

doi:10.1109/MIC.2013.19    Download