If you are in the market for a cloud infrastructure solution and have done some initial cost benchmarking using for example the CloudVertical cost cheat sheet for some of the larger, public cloud providers in the IaaS-space, it might be useful to do a more functional check of the cloud providers, matching their offerings against your own cloud IaaS service requirements or for instance the draft cloud IaaS checklist that are provided here.
This published version is an early draft that will be expanded in the coming weeks to provide a more full-fledged cloud IaaS checklist or service requirements specification. At the moment the checklist contains the rudimentary service elements of the service areas in the ToC below, and can be used to score 2 or more IaaS service providers against each other.
It can also be used together with for example the Cloud Assessment Tool by Asia Cloud Computing Association (ACCA) to give overall picture of cloud provider capabilities and ranking for a set of business goals or defined deliverables.
Cloud IaaS check list - ToC
This published version is an early draft that will be expanded in the coming weeks to provide a more full-fledged cloud IaaS checklist or service requirements specification. At the moment the checklist contains the rudimentary service elements of the service areas in the ToC below, and can be used to score 2 or more IaaS service providers against each other.
It can also be used together with for example the Cloud Assessment Tool by Asia Cloud Computing Association (ACCA) to give overall picture of cloud provider capabilities and ranking for a set of business goals or defined deliverables.
Cloud IaaS check list - ToC
- Key criteria
- Use cases
- Public, private, hybrid
- IT Operations support
- Reliability and availability
- Performance SLAs
- DC coverage
- VM configurations
- Storage
- Networking
- Security
- Monitoring
- Service control - service panel
- Billing
- Customer support
To be continued!
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