Stephen Pritchard looks at some key storage performance metrics that determine what your applications will get from cloud storage.

About 50% of business data is now stored in the cloud– and the volume stored using cloud technologies is higher still when private and hybrid clouds are factored in. Cloud storage is flexible and potentially cost effective. Organisations can pick from the hyper scalers – Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure – as well as local or more specialist cloud providers.
But how do we measure the performance of cloud storage services? When storage is on-premise, there are numerous well established metrics to allow us to keep track of storage performance. In the cloud, things can be less clear….. read more  Computer weekly Sept 21 cloud storage