Cloud Computing
Will your Web applications perform as planned if you move to the cloud?
Cloud computing has moved beyond hype and into the mainstream. It’s hard to ignore the benefits: pay-per-use billing, scalability, flexibility and hopefully fewer headaches for your IT team.
One of the most important concerns for many Web businesses is how cloud adoption will impact their end-users. This raises critical questions:
- Will your Web applications perform as planned after you make the move?
- How will adopting the cloud impact your end-users’ Web experience?
- How will you maintain control over the Web experience you deliver to your customers?
We already live in a world where many elements of your Web delivery — third-party vendors, multiple data centers, external ad networks or CDNs — are outside your firewall and not under your direct control. Now you’re being asked to migrate entire Web infrastructures to the cloud, furthering the distance between your team and its ability to monitor and manage the Web application delivery chain.
You need assurances that cloud services will address your company’s specific business needs. Most cloud providers offer broad SLAs, however…
Most cloud providers don’t currently offer monitoring of their services from the perspective of the end-user, nor do they offer service level agreements which guarantee the performance of their infrastructure.
With most cloud services, there’s an assumption you’re getting fast servers with redundant Internet connectivity in multi-homed data centers with good peering relationships to major networks nationally and internationally. There’s an assumption that the cloud’s promise of elasticity means that capacity will always be there when needed. But can you be sure?
The Gomez Platform can help you evaluate cloud providers, test your cloud application prior to deployment, and monitor it after it goes into production. Using Gomez can help you:
- Evaluate and select cloud vendors and technologies based on performance and reliability
- Measure impact of cloud infrastructure and configuration on end-user experience under normal and peak conditions
- Validate cloud-bursting configurations and solutions
- Monitor performance and availability of cloud-deployed applications
- Monitor SLA compliance
- Optimize performance in cloud application delivery chain while reducing cost
