Right-sizing your clouds
Gigaom Research cloud curator David Linthicum looks in his Weekly Update toward Leveraging fat clouds versus thin clouds; understanding the tradeoffs.
Are the managerial savings in cloud computing being lost in an exploding wave of complexity? Is the move toward business-differentiating applications requiring more cloud building blocks? But is there enough heft to those thin clouds and their providers?
David takes a look into the future and comes down somewhat on all sides–finding beauty in both the fat and the thin.
