Interoperability among platform has improved greatly with Service-oriented Architecture (SOA), but Application programming interfaces (APIs) for Cloud computing are still mainly proprietary and vary between different provides. This is done to keep users on the same platform, as they cannot easily migrate their software from one site to another.
However, this form of "digital communism" is not acceptable nowadays, so a standartised model of APIs should be adopted sooner or later. This will be beneficial to end users, because if they can spread their data among multiple cloud providers, they won't lose it if one of them suffers failure.
Furthermore, the introduction of standartised APIs will enable a public cloud to take over the excessive load upon a private cloud or a data center, because they will "speak the same language".
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