{"id":9683,"date":"2013-12-10T00:37:10","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T00:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2013\/dec\/10\/ibm-launches-cloud-clouds-offering-aims-stop-vendor-lockin\/"},"modified":"2013-12-10T00:37:10","modified_gmt":"2013-12-10T00:37:10","slug":"ibm-launches-cloud-of-clouds-offering-aims-to-stop-vendor-lock-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/ibm-launches-cloud-of-clouds-offering-aims-to-stop-vendor-lock-in\/","title":{"rendered":"IBM launches \u201ccloud of clouds\u201d offering, aims to stop vendor lock-in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IBM has developed technology which will allow clients to move data between clouds and backed up whilst avoiding the dreaded vendor lock-in, it has been claimed.<\/p>\n<p>A press release on the IBM website explains how the Armonk firm&rsquo;s patent pending invention enables a &ldquo;cloud of clouds&rdquo; theory &ndash; the idea that a series of clouds can offer greater protection against outages and data loss than any single cloud.<\/p>\n<p>This is alongside a software toolkit developed by IBM which allows storage systems to access third party private and public clouds.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Our cloud of clouds invention can help clients avoid service outages and security incidents that impact the reliability and security of individual clouds,&rdquo; Evangelos Eleftheriou, IBM fellow, said.<\/p>\n<p>He added: &ldquo;We are adding multiple levels of redundancy and reliability by making cloud migration and backup easier and faster than is currently possible.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Pivotally, the solution uses object storage to target data &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IBM has developed technology which will allow clients to move data between clouds and backed up whilst avoiding the dreaded vendor lock-in, it has been claimed.<br \/>\nA press release on the IBM website explains how the Armonk firm&rsquo;s patent pending inve&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}