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 ...

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Stop scripting. Autonomous agents are your "MAESTRO," utilizing the A2A protocol to orchestrate multi-cloud tasks for ...

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 ...

Does the word lock-in send shivers up your spine? Does vendor lock-in keep your CIO or CTO up at night? Is lock-in really costing organizations tons of money in 2022? The short answer is, no. Two to ...

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 ...

One of the primary reasons companies fail to innovate is that they are locked into a specific vendor’s technology. Watch out for these pitfalls. In order to remain competitive, today’s businesses need ...

As software-defined networking becomes more dominant, the APIs offered up by one networking vendor can more severely limit interoperability with products made by others. In my surveys of enterprises, ...

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.

Avoidance of vendor lock-in continues to drive much of IT spending. However, it’s not necessarily clear that buying from a number of vendors achieves the desired result of lowering costs. Last time, I ...

It’s no secret that open source software is playing an increasingly prominent role in businesses around the globe, but a recent survey has uncovered a few surprising findings about adopters’ ...

Vendor lock-in has moved from corporate infrastructure into the cloud, only this time many are all too happy to embrace it. I started my professional career as a general-purpose "computer guy" for a ...