Suffering from cloud contention? It’s not the cloud’s fault

Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: David Linthicum.

If you’re in the cloud space, you’ve heard the term "noisy neighbor" before. If not, here’s a tip: It’s not about the house next door with the weird kids who play German death metal at full blast. It’s about your cloud provider’s support of tenancy. Cloud workloads that put large demands on the server, storage, database, or network — hurting the performance of other workloads that share those resources — have been a problem both inside corporate data centers and, in particular, on SaaS and IaaS cloud platforms. When you own the servers you at least have some control over the situation. If others control the servers — the case in the cloud — all you can do is to complain to them.

This "noisy neighbor" issue is a core reason why many enterprises have not moved their important applications to the cloud. The fear is that someone running an intensive application on another machine instance in the same infrastructure you’re sharing may affect your performance. In my experience, however, this fear isn’t borne out in practice…

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