Cloud optimization tools go hybrid
February 11, 2014
Grazed from NetworkWorld. Author: Brandon Butler.
One of the hottest categories of tools to help manage your cloud computing deployment has been optimization and price performance services that recommend how you can more efficiently use cloud resources. Up until now, however, these services have been focused on public cloud providers like Amazon Web Services and Rackspace.
This week, Cloud Cruiser launched a cost optimization and comparison service that spans both public and private clouds. The Hybrid IT Cost Advisor will tell end users when it’s more cost efficient to run workloads in the public cloud compared to on premises resources…
As adoption of cloud computing resources continues to pick up, analyst William Fellows of the 451 Research Group believes there will be increased need for these types of services. “Users expect to be able to make rational decisions about how and where to run applications and tasks based upon workload profile, policies and SLA (service level agreement) requirements,” he wrote in an e-mail…
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