Busting the nine myths of cloud computing | Cloud Computing - InfoWorld

Busting the nine myths of cloud computing | Cloud Computing - InfoWorld.

"Currently, it takes a lot of footwork, and a lot of manual reconfiguration, and lots of engineering effort" to move applications among public and private clouds, says Staten. And even then, "we're still in the 'I hope it works' phase."

Seamless integration is easier if customers are running the same platforms in both the public and private clouds, he says, but for the typical, more complex environments standards efforts such as the Open Virtualization Format are still "very basic" attempts to ease interoperability.