Application Portability: A Necessity

Abstract

Cloud computing is a growing field. People have started relying upon this technology a lot more nowadays, yet some issues still remain which become hindrances to the development of this sphere. One such issue is the difficulty of portability of applications in clouds. There are various needs of portability of applications including prevention of vendor lockin, flexibility in services desired, more reliability on clouds, prevention of data loss and increasing the scope of the application in terms of usage and environment. Portability is the capacity of an application to run effectively on different systems without having to change its configurations. Our motive is to achieve the same in case of applications supported by Cloud Computing