Cloud Now (Brown Cow)?

No question, today’s buzzword is “Cloud”.  It’s going to cut your costs, reduce your workload and provide endless scalability.  Gartner’s 2008 report said, “no less influential than e-business”.  The Financial Times, in March 2009, “Not only is it faster and more flexible, it is cheaper. …the emergence of cloud models radically alters the cost benefit decision." 

If you’re a medium-to-small enterprise whose business is on the Web, serving your customers with proprietary applications such as SaaS or B2B eCommerce, is Cloud where you should be going?

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Practical Cloud Computing

When Load Tests Are Not Equal

Load testing, once a mysterious and rarified art, is now mainstream. Dozens of companies sell tools so you can bring these skills in-house, and dozens more have services that do some – or all of it – for you.   Services range in approach from do-it-yourself to outsourced to on-site consulting, in load delivery from “over-the-‘net” to “behind the firewall” to “last mile”, and in cost from a few hundred to tens of thousands of dollars.

If you're shopping for a load test, here are
8 questions you should ask your vendors to make sure you are comparing apples with apples and are making a sound selection.

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