{"id":1778,"date":"2015-07-13T19:35:54","date_gmt":"2015-07-13T19:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.abstracta.us\/?p=1778"},"modified":"2025-05-05T21:21:40","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T21:21:40","slug":"cloud-performance-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abstracta.us\/blog\/performance-testing\/cloud-performance-challenges\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud Performance Challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- Go to www.addthis.com\/dashboard to customize your tools --><script src=\"\/\/s7.addthis.com\/js\/300\/addthis_widget.js#pubid=ra-58d80a50fc4f926d\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h1><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #333333;\">Hurdles to overcome with cloud computing and performance<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #333333;\">The other day I came across this<\/span><span style=\"color: #00b674;\">\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: 400;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cmg.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/1-Paliwal-Performance-Challenges-in-Cloud-Computing.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">paper<\/a><\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #333333;\">and today I want to highlight some of the main aspects\u00a0of cloud performance challenges.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #333333;\">First of all, we all know how important\u00a0cloud computing is for today\u2019s demanding business requirements. Performance considerations are vital for the overall success of cloud computing, including the optimum cost of cloud services, reliability, and scalability. They require a lot of attention and effort by the cloud computing providers, integrators and service consumers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #333333;\">Cloud computing is unique because of its distinct general characteristics:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #333333;\"><strong>Multi-tenancy:<\/strong> Public cloud service providers often host the cloud services for multiple users within the same infrastructure<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #333333;\"><strong>Elasticity and scalability:<\/strong> Ability to expand and reduce resources according to your specific service requirement<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #333333;\"><strong>Pay-per-use:<\/strong> Pay for cloud services only when you use them<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #333333;\"><strong>On-demand<\/strong>: One can invoke cloud services on an as-needed basis, not needing to be part of the IT infrastructure<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #333333;\"><strong>Resiliency:<\/strong>\u00a0The cloud can completely isolate the failure of server and storage resources from cloud users<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #333333;\"><strong>Workload movement:<\/strong> It is important for resiliency and cost considerations, service providers can migrate workloads across servers<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Major_Obstacles_in_Adoption_and_Growth\"><\/span><strong>Major Obstacles in Adoption and Growth<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #333333;\">The success of Cloud deployments is highly dependent on practicing holistic performance engineering and capacity management techniques. A majority of the obstacles for adoption and growth of cloud computing are related to the basic performance aspects, such as availability, performance, capacity, or scalability.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #333333;\">In this <a style=\"font-weight: 400;\" href=\"https:\/\/www2.eecs.berkeley.edu\/Pubs\/TechRpts\/2009\/EECS-2009-28.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> from the University of California at Berkley, you can see a list\u00a0of the Top 10 Obstacles for Cloud Computing back in 2009. Have we overcome these performance challenges?<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #333333;\">Performance engineers need to get to the bottom of the technical transactions of underlying cloud services before advising cloud computing users and cloud computing providers for the cloud services.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #333333;\">The degree to which cloud services can meet agreed service level requirements for availability, performance, and scalability can be estimated by using performance modeling techniques so that potential performance anti-patterns can be detected before they happen.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #333333;\">In the absence of sophisticated tooling for automated monitoring, the automatic provisioning and usage-based costing (metering) facilities rely mainly on fine-grained capacity management. Until more data collection, analysis, and forecasting are in place, capacity management is more opportune than ever.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #333333;\">Irrespective of sophisticated tooling for automated monitoring, cloud computing users need to analyze their demand for capacity and their requirements for performance. In their contract with cloud computing providers, users should always take a bottom-line approach to accurately formulate their service-level requirements.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #333333;\">In summary, today&#8217;s cloud performance challenges are substantial and innovation\u00a0needs to continue in order to overcome them. Industry watchers (such as Gartner) are predicting that Performance Engineering becomes even more critical to the success of the Cloud-based IT industry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #333333;\">We want to know! What are the greatest cloud performance challenges you have encountered?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Recommended_for_You\"><\/span><strong>Recommended for You<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #00b674;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/abstracta.us\/blog\/software-testing\/software-testing-wheel\/\">The Software Testing Wheel<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #00b674;\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/abstracta.us\/blog\/performance-testing\/top-10-factors-impacting-application-performance\/\">Top 10 Factors Impacting Application Performance<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hurdles to overcome with cloud computing and performance The other day I came across this\u00a0paper\u00a0and today I want to highlight some of the main aspects\u00a0of cloud performance challenges. First of all, we all know how important\u00a0cloud computing is for today\u2019s demanding business requirements. Performance considerations&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v14.0.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Cloud Performance Challenges You Should Know | Abstracta<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Cloud performance challenges include the optimum cost of cloud services, reliability and scalability. 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