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…
DetailsIn the last blog (Blog 3), we explored the last four pieces of the Cloud Readiness Domain Model. In this final installment of the Cloud Readiness Blog Series, we provide an overview of the Cloud Readiness process and engagement model, describing how the process is performed with a Client. The Cloud Readiness Assessment Process The…
DetailsIn the last blog (Blog 2 in the series), we explored the first four elements of the Cloud Readiness Domain Model. This blog will explore the last four pieces of the Cloud Readiness Domain Model. Cloud Security Readiness Cloud security readiness focuses on the various policy and guidance, security controls and enforcement/oversight and assurance processes,…
DetailsIn part one of this series, we provided some essential context for Cloud Readiness by framing the importance of developing a Cloud strategy, and determining whether your Cloud goals and objectives were incremental in nature, with a limited scope; or transformational and targeting the entire enterprise value chain. In this post, we present the Cloud…
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…
DetailsWe recently conducted a publicly available study on the largest European Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) to measure price-performance value in the industry. The findings are packaged in our 2017 Top 10 European Cloud Providers reports. Based on a transparent methodology, we ranked the top 10 European cloud service providers to help the enterprise with an unbiased…
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…
DetailsThis month we published the 2016 Top Cloud IaaS 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 contract terms. Download the Report: 2016 Top Cloud IaaS…
DetailsBack in May, we were asked about differences in cloud offerings between different geographic regions served by the same providers. Given that many of the larger providers advertise the same environment (similar hardware, configuration, etc.) from region to region, one would assume that performance between products be similar. We knew that pricing would vary across…
DetailsBack in 2014 we tested Microsoft’s Azure A-series public cloud offering against the then newly released D-series. From this data, we created a report for GigaOM entitled ‘Generational Performance Comparison: Microsoft Azure’s A-Series and D-Series’. The D-series Virtual Machines (VMs) are focused on higher performance with more memory. With processors touted as 60% faster than…
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