Moving your apps to the cloud? Beware the slowdown effect
May 9, 2014
Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: David Linthicum.
All clouds are fast and elastic, right? Well, it depends on many factors, but I can say for certain that the way you use cloud determines performance more than the cloud itself. Cloud computing is really a new way to consume resources. The resources themselves are not much different than the resources you’ve consumed for years in private data centers.
What’s different about the cloud is your ability to spin up any number of resources, as needed. Once you’re done using them, you can spin them down. This is why public clouds are typically elastic, although this does not ensure both performance and scalability. To get both of those attributes, the key to success is more a matter of application design than it is the cloud platform itself…
Poorly designed applications perform poorly no matter where you run them. Yet many enterprises try to take these applications, move them to the cloud, and hope that all is magically fixed because they’re now on the cloud…
Read more from the source @ http://www.infoworld.com/d/cloud-computing/moving-your-apps-the-cloud-beware-the-slowdown-effect-242123
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