The Economics of the Hybrid Multicloud Fog
Joe Weinman · IEEE Cloud Computing · 2017
The industry has moved beyond the simplistic, black or white debate of whether to use public cloud services in consolidated hyperscale facilities. Instead, real-world environments typically have a mix of strategies; including legacy environments, private clouds, and public cloud providers at the infrastructure, platform, or software level, and increasingly are utilizing not just centralized facilities, but highly dispersed compute and storage elements: the "fog."