Are cloud standards a bright new horizon, or just pie in the sky?

For many financial services cloud users, the ability to port data and workloads seamlessly from one public cloud to another and make applications interoperable, insulated from the work of dealing with individual infrastructure, is a kind of utopian dream. This flexibility gives subscribers the power to negotiate terms with providers, negating vendor lock-in. And regulators, particularly in the UK and EU, are pushing for a multi-cloud world to ensure that critical data is not lost and critical