Title : 
Winds of Change: From Vendor Lock-In to the Meta Cloud
         
        
            Author : 
Satzger, B. ; Hummer, Waldemar ; Inzinger, Christian ; Leitner, Philipp ; Dustdar, Schahram
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Vienna Univ. of Technol., Vienna, Austria
         
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
            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.
         
        
            Keywords : 
cloud computing; hybrid cloud users; jagged cloud landscape; meta cloud; public cloud users; service providers; vendor lock-in problems; Cloud computing; Knowledge based systems; Monitoring; Pricing; Quality of service; Runtime; automated deployment; cloud computing; meta cloud; provider independence; resource management; service provisioning;
         
        
        
            Journal_Title : 
Internet Computing, IEEE
         
        
        
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/MIC.2013.19