How Database Virtualization Could Break Vendor Lock-in

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikewaas/ In the age of public cloud, shouldn’t vendor lock-in be a thing of the past? Every other discipline in IT has been transformed in the past 20 years by virtualization.

Database is not only one of the oldest branches of IT, but also one of the last bastions of vendor lock-in.

Stored Procedures, recursive views, proprietary data types, or Global Temporary Tables are just a few concepts database virtualization emulates efficiently.

This does not solve the original problem: In order to overcome the vendor lock-in, the enterprise has to, well, overcome the vendor lock-in in the first place?

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