IBM’s Cloud Migration Software Invention Helps Customers Avoid Vendor Lock-In

IBM inventors have developed new cloud storage software that provides a simple interface for clients to dynamically migrate data across multiple clouds, while keeping it confidential and secure. While enterprises today seek to adopt cloud computing to drive business innovation and growth, underlying concerns about security, reliability and vendor lock-in are also inhibiting widespread cloud adoption. IBM’s patent-pending invention overcomes concerns about data resiliency, security and service continuity via a new technique that seamlessly stores and moves data across multiple clouds. The method employs a “cloud-of-clouds” approach that invokes the resilience of separate clouds to offer stronger protection against service outages and data loss than any single cloud can deliver. Read on