“Avoid vendor lock-in” has been a mantra for a long time by other vendors and marketing promotions. Vendor lock-in is equated to a lack of choices or an impediment to making a change in the future. The lack of choices results in:
• Paying more for the next product or solution
• Failure to keep up with and benefit from new technology
• Reduced support or concern from the vendor in solving a problem.
These may be more fear-mongering from competitive vendors than reality, although there are companies that have demonstrated reprehensible behavior that is generally assigned to have a customer “locked-in.”
Read the rest of the blog on Storage Soup
See John Webster’s blog on “Will Users See the Value of Software Defined Storage?”
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