Web Hosting Talk to launch another benchmark for IaaS clouds
 |
Earlier this week the hosting community Web Hosting Talk (a division of iNET Interactive), in collaboration with the hosting provider The Planet, announced the private beta of new benchmark for cloud computing called Bench the Cloud.
The new benchmark framework, which will be officially launched as a private beta in mid August, seem designed to measure performance of public cloud infrastructures only, through a crowdsourcing approach.
It is built on a suite of open-source benchmarking tools and measures three key criteria essential to running cloud applications: CPU performance, disk read and disk write speed.
Bench the Cloud is only the last attempt to rate the performance of public clouds. In June CloudHarmony published the first performance analysis of most IaaS public clouds. And in July Compuware launched a public tracking service for IaaS and PaaS public clouds called CloudSleuth.
The Planet recently adopted KVM as virtualization platform of choice for part of its public cloud infrastructure, so it will be rather interesting to see if Bench the Cloud will measure that portion of the infrastructure and compare it against other offerings that are Xen-based and ESX-based.
cloudcomputing.info Newest articles
September 2nd, 2010
VMworld 2010 is at its last day and VMware decided to place the second keynote today. The second keynote is usually more technical than the first one, but as virtualization.info…
August 31st, 2010
Here we go again. As usual virtualization.info is at the VMworld conference to live cover the keynotes and any other major announcement released by VMware during the event.
Paul Maritz,…
August 30th, 2010
Just before the VMworld 2010 opening keynote, cloudcomputing.info received a couple of confirmations that VMware is about to rename its not-yet-launched vCloud Service Director (vCSD) in just vCloud Director. This…
August 30th, 2010
Just one day before the VMware VMworld 2010 opening keynote, Citrix managed to distract the audience with a major announcement: the acquisition of VMLogix for an undisclosed sum.
VMLogix entered…
August 17th, 2010
A new US startup recently left the stealth mode and officially entered the Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud computing market: Cloupia.The company is focused on cloud computing platform management with its flagship…
August 16th, 2010
VMware’s VMworld 2010 is just two weeks away and, like always, virtualization.info will publish a live report from the keynote stage. From his Twitter account, Steve Herrod, CTO and Senior Vice…
August 13th, 2010
These days the Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud computing market is getting more and more crowded with vendors that offer on-premises management solutions.One of them is Attribo, an Indian startup that left…
August 13th, 2010
At the end of July a new startup entered the Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud computing market: Skydera.
The startup, incubated at the Founder Institute, is focused on cloud management.It was founded…
August 13th, 2010
In April 2008 Google launched its public Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) cloud computing infrastructure called App Engine (GAE).At that time the platform only supported Python language.Exactly one year later, Google added a…
August 12th, 2010
Hyper9, which recently lost his founder and CTO, just announced a new add-on for its management product Virtual Environment Optimization (VEO) 2.5
The product continues to evolve: it started as…
August 12th, 2010
As most readers know by now, VMware is expected to announce its management solution for Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud computing platforms, vCloud Service Director (vCSD), at the end of the month, during…
August 11th, 2010
In January 2010 VMware announced the acquisition of Zimbra, the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) collaboration suite owned by Yahoo! at that time.Zimbra also includes a free and open source mail client that…
August 10th, 2010
In mid July a new, very interesting company officially entered the Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) cloud computing market: PiCloud.
The company, still in semi-stealth mode, was founded in September 2008 by Ken…
August 10th, 2010
Less than one month passed since Rackspace launched OpenStack, a free and open source Infrastructure-as-a-Service solution that can be installed on-premises.
OpenStack includes components from The Rackspace Cloud and Nova,…
Copyright © 2010 cloudcomputing.info. All rights reserved.