Vendor Lock-in Problem: Cloud Computing and MBaaS Solution

This report addresses the vendor lock-in problem in cloud computing, a significant obstacle to enterprise cloud adoption. The report highlights the challenges of vendor dependency and the lack of standardization that restricts data and application portability between cloud vendors. It explores the concept of vendor lock-in and its impact on cloud users. The report then focuses on Parse, an open-source MBaaS provider, as a potential solution, emphasizing its open-source nature, strong developer community, and lack of vendor lock-in. The report discusses the benefits of using Parse, including its flexible hosting options, data storage capabilities, push notifications, custom code execution, and identity logins. Parse is a comprehensive platform with a generalized database, session management, and built-in support for common application requirements, offering a solution to the complexities of infrastructure management. The report concludes by highlighting the advantages of Parse, such as its flexibility and its ability to avoid performance issues. The report also provides references to support the findings.

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Vendor lock-in problem is one of the obstacles to enterprise cloud adoption. Which
MBaaS provider has no vendor lock-in, open source and strong developer community?
Cloud computing provides numerous opportunistic strategies related to business to
organizations both large and small. The strategies aid the organization to be a prominent
competitive player in the market and meet the business requirements and needs. Cloud users
have raised their inability to move data and applications from one particular cloud to another.
The cloud vendors mostly provide proprietary service to the enterprises in which the
specifications differs from one vendor to the other. Each vendor develops own solutions
which leads the users of the cloud to dependent, that is locked in on a particular vendor, the
reason being technical incompatibility. The vendor lock-in can be defined as a restricted
technology use, service or solution which is been developed by the vendor (Marinescu 2017).
This technique does not allow the customers to effectively move to other vendors. The
service ensures dependency of the customer on various vendor services. Vendor lock-in is a
major drawback in cloud computing as it lacks standardization. When the customers take
services from the vendors, they are ignorant about the standards that inhibit portability and
interoperability of the applications (Quint and Kratzke 2016).
Parse is a web and mobile open sourced application and is heavily supported by a
strong and active developer community. Parse is an open source application and hence makes
it a good choice for use. The technology comes without vendor lock-in (Shah and Jinwala
2015). This is a great aspect of the application and makes it better than its competitors. The
application requires to download the project, then the setting of the server infrastructure. The
license of the Parse inflicts minimum restrictions on software use. Parse provides maximum
flexibility to the users in case of hosting. Parse can be run easily on dedicated instances

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avoiding jeopardizing of the performance of the app by any neighbors. The major advantage
of the app is that its flexible hosting allows storage of the application data from location.
Parse allows storage of data in cloud, handling of push notifications, custom code running in
cloud and identity log-ins. Parse provides broader platform and a generalized database,
session management and it has a built-in support system for all the requirements of common
application. Services provided by Parse remove pain point managing of infrastructure and
complexity of the services offered.

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References
Marinescu, D.C., 2017. Cloud computing: theory and practice. Morgan Kaufmann.
Shah, U.S. and Jinwala, D.C., 2015. Resolving ambiguities in natural language software
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Quint, P.C. and Kratzke, N., 2016. Overcome Vendor Lock-In by Integrating Already
Available Container Technologies Towards Transferability in Cloud Computing for
SMEs. Proceedings of CLOUD COMPUTING, 2016.