The range of choices that enterprises have when it comes to both locations and methods for running applications and other critical workloads continues to expand at a dizzying rate. From public cloud service providers like Amazon's (AMZN) AWS and Microsoft's (MSFT) Azure, to on-premise private cloud data centers, as well as traditional legacy applications, to containerized, orchestrated microservices, the range of computing options available to today's businesses is vast.
As interesting as some of the new solutions may be, however, the selection of one versus another has often been a binary choice that necessitated complicated