Cloud databases: A resilient and robust framework to dissolve vendor lock-in

Abstract

Vendor lock-in has become a major concern in cloud computing. The term vendor lock-in describes situations where the subscriber or end user cannot move data or services to another cloud service provider. This is due to heavy data volumes, high network bandwidth costs, dependencies, or unacceptable downtime. The proposed vendor lock-in dissolution practice migrates the database effectively in noticeably less time, regardless of database size and with a nominal network bandwidth requirement. Through this new practice, databases can be migrated to very remote regions, even across continents. A real-time implementation of the proposed method presented in this paper.