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.

A press release on the IBM website explains how the Armonk firm’s patent pending invention enables a “cloud of clouds” theory – the idea that a series of clouds can offer greater protection against outages and data loss than any single cloud.

This is alongside a software toolkit developed by IBM which allows storage systems to access third party private and public clouds.

“Our cloud of clouds invention can help clients avoid service outages and security incidents that impact the reliability and security of individual clouds,” Evangelos Eleftheriou, IBM fellow, said.

He added: “We are adding multiple levels of redundancy and reliability by making cloud migration and backup easier and faster than is currently possible.”

Pivotally, the solution uses object storage to target data …