Portability and interoperability

The cloud computing era brings with it the need to design, build, and manage a business-focused ecosystem. Efficient communication and interaction across such an ecosystem require interoperability between the enterprise and its ecosystem partners. Since a universal set of standards does not exist and most likely won't exist shortly, these ecosystems can encounter a significant risk of vendor lock-in. An ecosystem's ability to use reusable components to build systems that work together out of the box depends on the enforcement of portability and interoperability governance. A particular concern for in-cloud computing this is critical during the deployment or migration of systems to a cloud service provider. A typical scenario is an inability to migrate some components to the cloud due to data management or data sovereignty regulations. Cloud migration requires portability of all migrating components as well as interoperability of those components with systems...