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Dear MySQLers, the Cloud Is Good, But the Fog Is the Next Big Thing

And here we go again: here is another term. We are still debating about the real meaning of Cloud and if a database fits in IaaS, PaaS, SaaS or in a combination of all three, and now we experience another wave of change. To be fair, the term Fog Computing has been around for quite some time, but it has never enjoyed the popularity of its buddy “the Cloud”.
Is Fog Computing another pointless renaming of well known technologies and IT infrastructures? Or is it a real new thing that Systems and Database Administrators should look at, study and embrace? My intent here is not to support one side or the other, but simply to instil a few thoughts that may turn handy in understanding where the IT market is going, and more specifically where MySQL can be a good fit in some of the new …

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