Technology Services....Ahead of Times Performance Testing in Cloud: White Paper Submitted for STC 2010

“Cloud Computing, the long-held dream of computing as a utility, has the potential to transform a large part of the IT industry, making software even more attractive as a service and shaping the way IT hardware is designed and purchased.” ~ From Executive Summary of Above the Clouds: A Berkeley View of Cloud Computing So much is said and done about Cloud computing, it is the single largest focal point of the computing infrastructure exist today! Many of the Web Applications are moving to Cloud and perhaps the most important reason for leveraging cloud capabilities is to quickly gain access to hundreds or thousands of computers for computing capacity when needed, performance becomes an essential and integral part, IT organizations are aiming to gain agility in their applications and infrastructure. Application performance and customer loyalty go hand-in-hand as said by Jonathan Rende, vice president and general manager, Business Technology Optimization Applications, Software and Solutions, HP. According to 2010-11 World Quality report, a quarter of all survey respondents indicate that they encountered application performance issues within the first few months of moving to the cloud infrastructure, followed by 20 % who experienced security and vulnerability problems. In this paper, I will be talking about the rational approaches to choose right vendor for your company, variou