Do Cloud ROI Modeling Tools Really Help?
January 23, 2013
Grazed from CloudTimes. Author: Florence de Borja.
Cloud computing has truly evolved from providing computing or storage resources to a more industry-specific community. Today, there are cloud instances to cater to each compliance and security requirements of a particular industry. Verizon has its cloud service which complies with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act for the healthcare industry. Metal Lynx targets traders of precious metals. There are private clouds which are housed offsite and managed by a 3rd party provider.
With the myriads of cloud applications now available in the market, it makes sense to question if these cloud computing services do offer great cost savings. Although it may seem difficult to evaluate the financial viability of each cloud service, there are cloud providers today who offer cloud costing and modeling tools in order to help the cloud customers ascertain the true cost of such services…
Some Cloud Computing Modeling And Costing Tools
For IT benchmarking of current cloud services, 6Fusion’s Cloud Resource Meter is able to measure demanding cloud computing resources necessary to operate a software which is x86-based. Introduced for VMware vSphere, the application is also able to measure resources running on Windows and Linux. Cloudyn, on the other hand, has a tool which computes the duration, type, and number of Reserved Instances an organization must buy to meet its needs. The tool is able to support Amazon Relational Database Service, Amazon Elastic Block Store, and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud…
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