Being tied to the future products of a vendor due to the previous investment made in that vendor's proprietary hardware or software. The most common vendor lock-in is the operating system. When custom ...

Vendor lock-in has been such a standard part of enterprise IT over the years that it often goes unnoticed and unquestioned. Recently, however, that lock-in mentality has followed enterprises to the ...

There is a pattern I keep seeing in large enterprises when it comes to their cloud strategies. Many organizations are very concerned about being locked into a single public cloud vendor. To counter ...

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The only certainties in life are death, taxes, and cloud lock-in. Let’s look at the reasons behind lock-in reality and why it’s so difficult to avoid. I’ll admit I felt a bit vindicated by this ...

Within the last ten years, many companies have migrated to cloud-based technology to avoid the budgetary constraints of funding large capital projects for data centers and agile software development.

If you looked at OpenAI prior to Friday afternoon, it had everything an enterprise buyer (and, for that matter, an investor) could possibly want in a startup: an absolutely killer product in ChatGPT, ...

One of the most significant benefits true open source software provides is the ability to avoid vendor lock-in. This allows you to reduce costs, increase your pace of innovation and generally take ...

The initiative highlighted at VMworld depends upon customers and vendors using VMware's vSphere virtualization platform, which could prevent true cloud interoperability VMware talks a good game about ...