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2011 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Evaluating Cloud Platforms- An Application Perspective
Authors : Pankaj Deep Kaur, Inderveer Chana
Published in: Information Technology and Mobile Communication
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Cloud computing has gained tremendous consideration recently. In the ‘Era of Tera’ when data sizes are continuously escalating and traffic patterns have become unpredictable; Cloud is a viable alternative for enterprises to serve their consumers with quicker response times. The businesses can rely on service provider to host their applications and can thus focus on their core competencies. However, a large number of Cloud providers have spurred up with their offerings. As the number of Cloud Computing players grows, the run time services provided to the cloud consumers act as key differentiators. In this paper, traditional applications are compared with Cloud applications and metrics relevant to the Cloud services have been identified. Further, the services of five major Cloud providers are compared for fundamental differences that exist in their offerings on the basis of these metrics.