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New group to set out standards for cloud computing agility and elasticity
"Cloud computing is on the rise and represents a major shift in how servers are used and how their performance is measured," said Rema Hariharan, chair of OSGCloud. "We want to assemble the best minds to define this space, create workloads, augment existing SPEC benchmarks, and develop new cloud-based benchmarks."
The group is targeting three types of users for the workloads and benchmarks it will create: Hardware and software vendors providing products that enable cloud services, cloud providers and business customers who could use benchmark results to help them select cloud providers.
While the group is off to a “great start” in creating guidelines for benchmarks with clearly defined, standardised metrics, Hariharan added that she “would like to see wider participation, especially from cloud providers and users.”
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