Vendor lock-in problem in cloud storage

Pilvitallennuspalvelut tuovat datan tallentamiseen ennennäkemättömiä etuja ja niiden hyödyntäminen on, sekä yksittäisillä kuluttajilla, että yrityksillä, yleistymässä. Teknologiassa on kuitenkin vielä ongelmia ilman ratkaisua. Turvallisuus-, sekä yksityisyysseikat ovat tunnetuimpia, ja niitä on tutk...

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Main Author: Pekkala, Ville
Other Authors: Informaatioteknologian tiedekunta, Faculty of Information Technology, Informaatioteknologia, Information Technology, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylän yliopisto
Format: Bachelor's thesis
Language:eng
Published: 2015
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Online Access: https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/46679
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description Pilvitallennuspalvelut tuovat datan tallentamiseen ennennäkemättömiä etuja ja niiden hyödyntäminen on, sekä yksittäisillä kuluttajilla, että yrityksillä, yleistymässä. Teknologiassa on kuitenkin vielä ongelmia ilman ratkaisua. Turvallisuus-, sekä yksityisyysseikat ovat tunnetuimpia, ja niitä on tutkittu laajalti. Vähemmälle huomiolle on jäänyt, kuinka vaikeaa on palveluntarjoajan vaihtaminen. Palveluntarjoajan vaihtaminen aiheuttaa aina kustannuksia asiakkaalle. Tilannetta, jossa vaihtokustannukset ovat niin suuret, että ne estävät palveluntarjoajan vaihtamisen, kuvataan termillä "vendor lock-in" (toimittajaloukku). Tämän kandidaatintutkielman tavoitteena on kirjallisuuskatsauksen perusteella selvittää, mitkä aiheuttavat vaihtokustannuksia pilvitallennuksessa, mitä riskejä toimittajaloukku aiheuttaa sekä yksittäisille asiakkaille, että yrityksille, sekä kuinka toimittajaloukkua voi välttää. Suurin osa vaihtokustannuksista tuli kirjallisuuskatsauksen perusteella datan siirtämisestä uudelle palveluntarjoajalle. Eriävät standardit estävät tallennetun datan helpon siirtämisen. Vaihtaessa palveluntarjoajaa, pilveen tallennettu data täytyy ensiksi ladata vanhalta palveluntarjoajalta ja sen jälkeen lähettää uuteen. Big Datan aikakaudella tämä voi olla hyvin kallis ja aikaa vievä operaatio. Muut kustannukset liittyivät uuden palvelun käytön opettelemiseen. Asiakas on toimittajaloukkuun jäädessään luonnollisesti pilven toimittajan armoilla. Hinnannousujen tai palvelutason muutosten sietäminen ovat yleensä pienempi paha kalliiseen muutto-operaatioon verrattuna. Tämän lisäksi, jos data on keskitetty yhteen paikkaan, asiakkaalla ei ole pääsyä dataan toimittajan kärsiessä palvelukatkosta. Toimittajaloukkua välttääkseen täytyy asiakkaan ottaa se huomioon jo pilvitallennuspalvelua valitessa. Yksi valintakriteereistä pilvitallennuspalvelulle pitäisi olla pilvestä poistumisen helppous. Datan hajauttaminen useampaan paikkaan on luonnollisesti myös ratkaisu ongelmalle. Hajautetulle pilvitallennukselle on kehitetty useita menetelmiä. Ne hyödyntävät RAID:n kaltaisia menetelmiä jakamalla tiedoston osiin usealle pilvialustalle siten, että vain osa tiedostosta riittää sen uudelleenrakentamiseen. Huolimatta keinoista, joilla minimoida toimittajaloukun riskejä, toimittajaloukku horjuttaa pilvitallennuksen hyödyllisyyttä sekä pysyy ongelmana, joka on syytä tiedostaa harkitessa datan tallentamisen ulkoistamista pilveen. Cloud storage brings unprecedented benefits to data storage. This has been noted by both individual consumers as well as organizations as the utilization of cloud storage services is growing. However, the technology still has its' problems. Most research have received security and privacy problems. Another important detefrrent to the adoption of cloud storage, and one which has not received as much attention, is how hard it is to switch cloud storage provider. A situation, in which switching costs are so high that they block vendor switch, is called vendor lock-in. This bachelor's thesis means to investigate what are the causes for switching costs in cloud storage, what risks does vendor lock-in expose both individual consumer and organizations into and how one can avoid getting locked in. According to the literature review, biggest cause for switching cost comes from the laborious data migration process. Differing standards obstruct easy data migration. Instead, when switching service provider, the customer has to download data from the old cloud service provider and then upload it to the new cloud provider's servers. In the age of Big Data, this can be very expensive and timeconsuming operation. Costs also originate from having to learn to use the new service. Locked in customer is at the mercy of the cloud vendor. Enduring price hikes or changes in service level is usually a better alternative than undertaking the costly migration operation. Vendor lock-in also causes customer to be more vulnerable to service outages as he has all his important data centralized in one place. To avoid vendor lock-in, customer has to be aware of the issue when choosing a service provider. One of the criterion when choosing a vendor needs to be how easy it is to get the data out of the cloud. Distributing the data to multiple locations has been identified as a solution to minimize vendor lock-in problem. Distributed cloud has multiple implementations. They utilize RAID-like technologies by splitting file over multiple different cloud storage providers' servers so that only a certain part of the file is needed for reconstruction. Despite the ways to minimize the risks, vendor lock-in still remains a problem that has to be acknowledged by customer looking to outsource data storage to the cloud and one that slows down the adoption of these technologies.
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title_full Vendor lock-in problem in cloud storage
title_fullStr Vendor lock-in problem in cloud storage Vendor lock-in problem in cloud storage
title_full_unstemmed Vendor lock-in problem in cloud storage Vendor lock-in problem in cloud storage
title_short Vendor lock-in problem in cloud storage
title_sort vendor lock in problem in cloud storage
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topic vendor lock-in cloud storage distributed cloud storage switching costs big data toimittajaloukku pilvitallennus Tietojärjestelmätiede Information Systems Science
topic_facet Information Systems Science Tietojärjestelmätiede big data cloud storage distributed cloud storage pilvitallennus switching costs toimittajaloukku vendor lock-in
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