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Cloud Interoperability and Portability

In this tutorial, we will learn about cloud interoperability and portability, types of cloud computing portability, and interoperability. By Rahul Gupta Last updated : June 02, 2023

Cloud Interoperability and Portability

Portability and interoperability are related to the ability to create systems that function together "out of the box" from interchangeable components.

The ability to share or exchange information between two or more systems or programs is called interoperability. Cloud interoperability is the ability in which a customer's system communicates with a cloud service or the ability of one cloud service to communicate with other cloud services by sharing information to achieve predictable results according to a specified process.

Cloud computing and interoperability demonstrate that public and private cloud providers recognize the APIs, their standard settings, data formats, authentication, and authorization. "Ideally, it is a standardized interface so that we can migrate from one cloud service to another as a customer with little effect as possible on our systems.

Types of Cloud Portability and Interoperability

1. Application Portability

Portability between development and operational environments is specific application portability that arises with cloud computing. From a financial perspective, Cloud PaaS is especially appealing for development environments because it eliminates the need for investment in costly infrastructure that would be unused until the development is complete. However, if a particular environment is to be used at runtime, either on in-house systems or on various cloud platforms, it is important that the applications between the two environments can be transferred. Cloud computing brings development and operations closer together and, indeed, contributes to the convergence of the two as develops gradually. This will only function if the same environment is used for development and operation, or if device portability exists between environments for development and operation.

2. Application Interoperability

Interoperability of the application manages application to application communications using external services (e.g., middleware services). Application interoperability translates the processing functions into new programs from existing systems.

3. Platform Portability

Platform portability is supported by the UNIX operating system. It is mostly written in the language of C programming, and by re-compiling and re-writing a few small hardware-dependent parts that are not coded in C, it can be implemented on different hardware. Similarly, many other operating systems may be ported. This is the conventional portability approach to platforms. It allows portability of applications because applications that use the standard interface of the operating system can similarly be re-compiled and run on devices with distinct hardware. It is demonstrated in the platform source portability.

4. Platform Interoperability

Interoperability of networks includes standard protocols for the discovery of resources and the exchange of knowledge. These implicitly enable the interoperability of the applications that use the platforms. Interoperability with software cannot be accomplished without interoperability with platforms.