IDEAS Launches CloudSizer to Limit Cost and Performance Risks of Adopting Cloud Services

November 29, 2011

Tools

Web-based tool maps physical server usage to public clouds

SYDNEY--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Ideas International Limited (IDEAS, ASX:IDE) today launched CloudSizer (www.cloudsizer.com), a web-based tool for evaluating the cost and performance of public cloud services that offer infrastructure as a service (IaaS). CloudSizer is powered by RPE2, the industry-recognized server performance estimate. CloudSizer uses RPE2 to normalize the disparate performance of cloud compute instances from various public cloud providers, ensuring that users make apples-to-apples comparisons.

“The total cost, performance equivalence, and economics of cloud computing are mired in obscurity, and these unknowns can slow its adoption,” said Chris Gaun, research analyst at IDEAS. “By quickly and easily mapping the performance of specific physical servers to public cloud instances, users can reduce the uncertainty of selecting cloud services based on the exact needs of their workloads.”

CloudSizer takes customers’ usage patterns of physical servers into account when analyzing the cost and performance of different cloud services, giving them a more accurate assessment of their potential cloud costs. CloudSizer will thus particularly appeal to organizations seeking to shift workloads from underutilized servers to the cloud. CloudSizer also considers the costs of cloud services in different currencies, making global pricing comparisons possible. “Meeting the economic imperative of balancing actual cloud costs with intangible benefits, such as improved business agility, requires the ability to objectively quantify the capabilities of cloud services, and here CloudSizer can help,” said Gaun.

A free version, CloudSizer Express, is available to users for performing basic analysis of cloud services. CloudSizer Pro is the fully functional offering, priced at $299 for a three-month subscription, and enables more accurate analysis for serious server-to-cloud comparisons.

About Ideas International (IDEAS)

IDEAS provides enterprise IT research, insight, analysis, and tools to both the buy (IT Buyers) and sell (IT Sellers) sides of the industry, counting as clients many large technology vendors and major blue-chip global IT users. The company’s research focuses on servers, storage, software, services, and cloud computing. IDEAS is a publicly traded company on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX:IDE) and has been in business for over 25 years. IDEAS hosts users in over 100 countries and maintains offices in the US, EMEA, and Asia Pacific.

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