Microclouds: The Next Big Thing In Cloud Computing Or Just Another Edge Strategy?
DataCenter Knowledge, Thursday, September 5th, 2024
Microclouds combine cloud convenience with edge infrastructure, offering preconfigured server clusters for easy deployment anywhere, but their future impact on cloud computing remains uncertain.
Forget hybrid cloud and multicloud. Today, the hot new trend in cloud computing is microcloud, a concept that fuses cloud computing with edge infrastructure.
Or at least, that's what some folks - specifically, those in the ecosystem surrounding Canonical, which has been pushing the microcloud concept recently - are saying. Whether the microcloud trend will catch on - and whether it's any different from traditional edge computing architectures - is debatable.