Problems benchmarking Cloud (12 of 15 Data, data everywhere and not a bit to use)

As I mentioned in my last blog you can’t trust the data from clouds to be what you expect and you can’t trust your existing benchmarks to represent the future.So…what can you do?

 

The only way to control your own data is to have a private cloud, that way:

•      You are in charge and you monitor the hardware utilizations

•      The Cloud still has physical limits, and soft “limits”

–       Resource Pools, Reservations etc

•      Opportunity

–     Resource Utilisation and Service Information combined

•      Users, Processes, Transactions, Business Volumes

•      Challenge

–     Business decision based on easy capacity monitoring?

Having a private cloud means you are in charge and can do a really good job of tuning the environment to your requirements to ensure your service levels.

That’s going to be a tricky sell to the business though.

So we get to APM. We’re going to get this data, which is data that’s really hard to get hold of from the business or is new data that the business really wants.

•      Transaction times

•      Transaction counts

•      Transaction type

•      End to end

•      Per server

In effect all the information you could never get from the business, in one handy location.

We can now look at combining our APM and resource data and L'll talk more about this on Wednesday.

Phil Bell

Consultant