Earlier this month, we published the 2017 Top IaaS Cloud Services Provider Pricing Comparison, a cloud pricing comparison of public cloud providers with data centers in North America. The report includes pricing for virtual machines (VMs) running Linux and Windows operating systems for hourly, monthly, annual, and 3-year contractual terms. Providers Included in the Cloud…
DetailsEarly this year, the Cloud Spectator research team conducted an exhaustive industry study to determine 2017’s best IaaS service provider in North America based on price-performance value of public cloud offerings. The report was released in late February. We set out to rank the best IaaS service providers and arm the enterprise buyer with an…
DetailsIntroduction Cloud readiness is a term used frequently as Cloud computing matures into early mainstream adoption. Cloud readiness refers to an organization’s relative capacity to successfully adopt Cloud computing capabilities into its organizational fabric – the culture, its business processes, into its products and services, and into its information technology (IT) capabilities. Most Cloud readiness…
DetailsThe hybrid Cloud has emerged as the dominant Cloud deployment pattern over the last few years. While there is great interest in adopting public Cloud services from providers such as Amazon, Google, and Microsoft, mature enterprises inevitably have heavy investments in existing data centers and IT infrastructure that they still want to leverage and optimize.…
DetailsFinding a way to compare Cloud providers can often seem like comparing apples to oranges. From afar many providers seem similar, but upon closer inspection, you quickly realize they’re entirely different species altogether. In other words, comparing Cloud providers is hard. Since the explosion of Cloud computing, providers have rapidly innovated their Cloud services with…
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