The decision of where to run applications has grown steadily more complex and cloudier over the past decade. On the heels of the transition from physical to virtualized infrastructure, public and private cloud infrastructure consumption models came to the fore. Cloud consumption allows end-users to provision, scale, and deprovision in a self-service fashion, bypassing weeks or even months of requirements gathering and solution procurement and integration. As cloud infrastructure has matured, organizational use has accelerated: 94% of organizations use public cloud services today (inclusive of both infrastructure- and software-as-a-service providers).
Understanding the Relationship Between Cloud Management and Workload Placement
