Obscured by clouds: Time for IaaS vendors to come clean and play fair

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Obscured by clouds: Time for IaaS vendors to come clean and play fair
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All that stuff about resilience, choice, and control? Yeah, we'll take them now please

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What matters is what we want the market to look like after the CMA reaches its conclusion in 2025 – which sounds a long way away but is virtually hypersonic by regulatory standards. The first thing to note is that the concerns are valid. They don't come from fundamental misunderstandings, but from real pain felt by real customers.

The technological incompatibilities in workflow, management, and APIs have been there for all to see for many years. The IT industry as a whole has an unbreakable addiction to incompatibility as a rope to bind its victims, using the argument that it encourages innovation by making it easier to make money. Where the barriers to entry are low enough, different systems can maintain their differences while not discouraging system-agnostic approaches.

If your enterprise doesn't have the internal skill set to manage a cloud strategy, and despite the lauded simplicity of cloud versus on-prem, you won't at first, you'll go to a consultancy with an existing business relationship with an IaaS provider, including access to funding. Once you're in, you're in. It is in nobody's interest here to be platform agnostic, or to develop proper multi-cloud frameworks à la Unity, nobody's except yours.

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