Stripping down enterprise IT to the naked cloud
April 22, 2014
Grazed from TechTarget. Author: David Linthicum.
You can’t go more than a few weeks without hearing about new features from larger cloud providers such as AWS, Google or Microsoft. They constantly add database services, new provisioning features, new management capabilities, new types of storage and many other services. A case can be made for a minimalist approach to cloud; one that takes advantage of public cloud services that don’t have all of the bells and whistles.
Late March price cuts across the board for cloud services from these providers made it clear that the public cloud wars were on. It was the functional equivalent of carnival barkers, all trying to attract your business at the same time. Once you’re in their tent, it’s very hard to leave…
However, a case can be made for a minimalist approach to cloud; one that takes advantage of public cloud services that don’t have all of the bells and whistles — just a few simple services, such as storage, compute or databases. In some cases, it has the ability to get down to the primitives of the platforms, without going through layers of application program interfaces (APIs) and management tools. In some circles, this is called a "naked cloud."..
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