IDG Contributor Network: With cloud, anything goes, apparently

Is it better to rideshare, take a taxi, or rent, lease, finance, or outright purchase a car? Should it be a convertible, coupe, or sedan?  The answer, of course, is "it depends"—on a variety of factors, which vary among customers and over time.  Similar variability of deployment models and architectures occurs with the cloud, too.  Here are some examples of what leading companies are doing, and their presumed or stated rationales.Go all in on public cloud—Netflix, with