Metrics Will Soon Transform Public Cloud Market

One of the maddening aspects of the cloud computing arena is the lack of adequate metrics with which to compare offerings and providers. Given that lack, anyone can say just about anything.

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Costs per data transaction ranged from a low of less than .1 of a cent to a full cent. It doesn't sound like much nevertheless these systems are designed to handle many transactions per second. Scaling latencies as well varied widely, yet in general Windows latency was longer.

The work is not complete. There are variables among networks that must be measured, both internal to the cloud and external, and variables based on the type of application being tested – an ecommerce application, a game-type application requiring low latency, a scientific application in other words compute intensive – to evaluate.