The importance of benchmarking clouds
June 12, 2014
Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Paul Miller.
For most businesses, the debate about whether to embrace the cloud is over. It is now a question of tactics — how, when, and what kind? Cloud computing increasingly forms an integral part of enterprise IT strategy, but the wide variation in enterprise requirements ensures plenty of scope for very different cloud services to coexist.
Today’s enterprise cloud deployments will typically be hybridized, with applications and workloads running in a mix of different cloud environments. The rationale for those deployment decisions is based on a number of different considerations, including geography, certification, service level agreements, price, and performance…
Price and performance are often seen as closely – almost inextricably – linked, and this connection is only likely to grow stronger as basic cloud infrastructure becomes increasingly commoditized. For some workloads, cost may be an overriding factor in selecting a cloud provider, and for others, performance is all that matters. For most, a complex combination of these and other factors will lie behind any deployment decision, making it important to ensure that buyers are fully informed about their options…
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