Vendor Lock-In

Part of what we do at Real Kinetic is give companies confidence to ship software in the cloud. Many of our clients are large organizations that have been around for a long time but who don’t always have much experience when it comes to cloud. Others are startups and mid-sized companies who may have some experience, but might just want another set of eyes or are looking to mature some of their practices. Whatever the case, one of the things we frequently talk to our clients about is the value of both serverless and managed services. We have found that these are critical to getting big wins with small teams on tight deadlines in the cloud. Serverless in particular has been key to helping clients get some big wins in ways others didn’t think possible. ...

GCP’s Slippery Slide into Enterprise When former Oracle exec Thomas Kurian took over for Diane Greene as Google Cloud’s CEO, a lot of people expressed concern about what this meant for the future of GCP. Vendor lock-in is already at the forefront of the minds of many cloud adopters, and Oracle is notorious for locking customers into expensive and prolonged contracts. However, I thought the move was smart on Google’s part. ...

It comes up in a lot of conversations with clients. We want to be cloud-agnostic. We need to avoid vendor lock-in. We want to be able to shift workloads seamlessly between cloud providers. Let me say it again: multi-cloud is a trap. Outside of appeasing a few major retailers who might not be too keen on stuff running in Amazon data centers, I can think of few reasons why multi-cloud should be a priority for organizations of any scale. ...