Many of the issues surrounding public clouds at least can be traced to a lack of interoperability between services. The cloud, after all, is simply another form of abstraction that has allowed enterprises to manipulate simple binary code since the dawn of the computer age, says ZapThink’s Jason Bloomberg. Fixing these problems is not a technical matter, then, but an organizational one that can be addressed by means of cloud brokering. Management firms like RightScale and Kaavo are keying in on this need with new template-based deployment models, while CloudSwitch uses a similar approach on the Layer 2 OSI stack. Either way, the idea is to break the dependency on a single cloud provider and any inherent architectural or infrastructure deficiencies they may have.

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