IT news from Australia is presenting a work made by the UNSW School of Computer Science. In this study they try to verify if the Cloud is as the Vendors are claiming that it is: elastic, reliable, dynamic, fault tolerant, high available..
http://www.itnews.com.au/News/153451,stress-tests-rain-on-amazons-cloud.aspx
These are very interesting points and independent tests are fundamental to create trust among Cloud users and providers.
Although I think this kind of test should be more focused on specific applications. As studies show, some of the potential problems found on the Cloud could be solved by the developers.
Using these ideas as starting point I’m working on a project that should be presented as a parallel event on the CloudViews.Org Cloud Computing Conference – 2010. This project, and the whole CloudViews.Org Cloud Computing Conference 2010 will be presented very soon, but If any one is interested in these topics, feel free to contact me directly.
