Cloud providers create a vendor-locked-in environment by offering proprietary and non-
standard APIs, resulting in a lack of interoperability and portability among clouds. To …

The vendor lock‐in is a prominent issue in cloud computing. It is caused by cloud providers
who offer proprietary services, which hinders the cloud interoperability. Client‐centric …

Inter-connected cloud computing is an inherent evolution of Cloud Computing. Numerous
benefits provided by connecting clouds have garnered attraction from the academic as well …

Growing interest towards cloud application platforms has resulted in a large number of
platform offerings to be already available on the market and new related products to be …

In recent years, the cloud hype has led to a multitude of different providers and offerings
across the entire cloud market, from Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) to Platform as a …

Due to the heterogeneity of today's cloud providers, migrating applications between
providers is extremely challenging. This lack of portability is caused, in part, by vendor lock …

In recent years, enterprise applications have begun to migrate from a local hosting to a cloud
provider and may have established a business-to-business relationship with each other …

Vendor lock-in can occur at any layer of the cloud stack-Infrastructure, Platform, and
Software-as-a-service. This paper covers the vendor lock-in issue at Platform as a Service …

Abstract Rapid development of Cloud Computing and its increasing popularity in recent
years has driven many commercial cloud providers in the market. Cloud service providers …

With the development of various cloud technologies and their increased usage, the newly
arisen challenge is the migration of a cloud-based application and data among various …