There were several good headlines on this.
Channelnomics entitled their coverage Walmart disrupts "Hotel California effect" in cloud
The Eagles' classic Hotel California concludes with the line: "You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave".
That's how some users of cloud services feel about their providers. Cloud computing allows businesses to offload data, applications, and workloads into hosted environments, decreasing their capital costs and providing management flexibility. But moving assets between clouds is extremely challenging, especially when it could disrupt mission-critical workloads.
SiliconANGLE lead with Walmart open-sources its internal PaaS to stick it to Amazon
The competition between the world's two largest retailers leaked into the public cloud this week after the announcement that Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is releasing the source code for the proprietary platform-as-a-service stack powering its e-commerce operations under a free license. The move should make quite a few providers stir in their seats, but it's only targeting one in particular.
Now we have to wait to see how open "open" is.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by frojack on Tuesday October 20 2015, @06:26AM
OneOps, which is based on software gained through its acquisition of the startup of the same name two years and a half years ago. Jeremy King, the chief technology officer of the retail giant’s sprawling engineering division, claimed in an official post that the framework allows for “seamless” migration of workloads among public clouds.
So this allows you to put your operations on Amazon's cloud, and then change your mind and move the entire operation to Microsoft's cloud. Any lock in Amazon had due to the effort required when moving disappears if you built your cloud app using OneOps.
Sounds like Dockers [docker.com] "container" for cloud applications.
Left unsaid, is how much trouble is it to get your application into OneOps, and will cloud providers ban it.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 20 2015, @03:13PM
It's t̶u̶r̶t̶l̶e̶s̶̶ abstractions all the way down!
(Score: 2) by jdavidb on Tuesday October 20 2015, @12:22PM
But moving assets between clouds is extremely challenging
I'm sensing a market for a new API with switchable backends...
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