About CloudHarmony
Our Team
| Upcoming Events
| In the News
Our Team
CloudHarmony™ is a startup founded in late 2009. At that time the 3 founders recognized a huge need for better benchmarks and performance data to measure and compare cloud providers. Our goal is to become the premier source of independent, un-biased, and useful performance metrics for cloud services. CloudHarmony is not affiliated with, owned or funded by any cloud provider. Our founders have a combined half decade of experience in software engineering, IT management, web development and supporting educational backgrounds. We embrace startup culture and don't pretend to be larger than we are using fancy titles. We are entirely focused on getting things done, requiring each founder to wear many hats to develop the business as quickly as possible.
Jason Read
Founder
Jason's primary responsibilities include software architecture and development, benchmarking and client interaction. He holds a Bachelors Degree in Computer Science from BYU. Prior to CloudHarmony, Jason's experience includes an Extreme Blue intership with IBM (details here and here), designing a user interface for Solera Networks, open source work, and more. Jason is a commercial instrument rated helicoptor pilot. During offtime, Jason enjoys spending time with family, skiing and other outdoor activities.
Contact: jason [at] cloudharmony.com
Timo Brimhall
Founder
Timo is responsible for most of the web design and development and branding. He completed a dual major in International Relations and Spanish at BYU. Prior to CloudHarmony, Timo designed the user interface and branding for FlipDog.com, a jobs site listed in PC magazines Top 100 websites and later acquired by Monster.com. His portfolio includes web design work for many businesses large and small. Timo enjoys his family, the arts, the outdoors, traveling, sports, learning about other cultures, and watching old spaghetti westerns.
Contact: timo [at] cloudharmony.com
Brian Radford
Founder
Brian's roles include software development, database administration, and business development. Brian has completed a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science and a Masters Degree in Instructional Phychology and Technology from BYU. Brian is also currently working on his PhD. Brian is an Oracle DBA and has many years of software development and management experience.
Contact: brian [at] cloudharmony.com
Upcoming Events
Events we have or will be participating in:
| Cloud Connect 2011: Performance Measurement for the Cloud |
| Event Date |
03/10/2011 |
| Event Location |
Santa Clara Convention Center, Silicon Valley, CA |
| Summary |
In this panel, experts from the field of performance measurement will discuss what they've learned from measuring the performance of cloud platforms, what we should be measuring in cloud applications, and the right methods for making those measurements. |
| Interop New York 2010: Measuring Cloud Performance |
| Event Date |
10/20/2010 |
| Event Location |
Javits Convention Center in New York, NY |
| Summary |
We'll be participating as a panelist in this Interop session on measuring cloud performance. In this session, we'll review existing studies on cloud performance, and look at what and how to measure cloud performance. |
In the News
Recent news articles about or mentioning CloudHarmony:
| Evaluating Cloud Computing Services |
| Created |
02/21/2011 by Brian |
| Summary |
Six factors to consider when selecting a cloud provider: Performance: 1) Technology stack 2) Service-level agreements and reliability 3) APIs: Lock-in, community and ecosystem 4) Security and compliance 5) Cost |
| Is Features vs. Performance the New Cloud Battle Line? |
| Created |
02/18/2011 by Derrick Harris |
| Summary |
As Amazon Web Services continues to roll out new features and services for its cloud platform, its competitors increasingly tout better performance as a key point of differentiation. |
| Uptime Girl ? |
| Created |
01/17/2011 by Loose Couple blog author |
| Summary |
Google's announcement of plans to offer "continuous uptime" prompts mystery blogger to examine concept of SLAs, adopt definitions for the terms "availability" and "reliability", and advise use of CloudHarmony.com over the SLA when navigating the cloud. |
| Do SLAs really matter? A 1 year case study of 38 cloud services |
| Created |
01/15/2011 by CloudHarmony.com |
| Summary |
CloudHarmony presents a one year case study of 38 IaaS providers. The study reveals that there is often no correlation between actual availability and SLAs. CloudHarmony critiques the various SLAs and suggests ways to determine availability. |
| Measured by "clouds" |
| Created |
12/30/2010 by Vladislav Belogrudov, SmartCloud |
| Summary |
SmartCloud explains why they have a very good impression of CloudHarmony as an independent means of measuring the clouds, and provides an example of a real time test of cloud servers which they performed at CloudHarmony.com. |
| Cloud Performance Metrics: No Standards, So Mileage Varies |
| Created |
11/03/2010 by Kevin Fogarty, CIO |
| Summary |
Cost and performance comparisons of cloud providers are needed, but prove almost impossible to conduct due to lack of industry benchmarks and lack of end-user resources. Cloud performance measurement services have originated to address this need. |
| The Interop user revolt against cloudy clouds: More solutions, less pixie dust! |
| Created |
10/21/2010 by Melanie Yarbrough, Enterprise IT Watch Blog |
| Summary |
Summary of Interop NY 2010 forum on cloud performance with panelists David Link CEO of ScienceLogic; Randy Bias,CEO of Cloudscaling; Jason Read, founder of CloudHarmony; Russell Rothstein VP of Product Marketing for OpTier; and Ale Polvi, CEO of CloudKick |
| Performance on Amazon’s EC2 Shines in Benchmarks |
| Created |
10/06/2010 by Rich Brueckner |
| Summary |
It may sound like a shirt size, but Amazon’s new EC2 instance for HPC, called “tacc.4xlarge,” is performing well in benchmarks written up by Cloud Harmony this week. |
| The Cloud Performance Dashboard: A Quick Market Overview |
| Created |
08/16/2010 by Ben Kepes, GigaOM |
| Summary |
As talk of cloud adoption by enterprises becomes more commonplace, focus is shifting from justifying the cloud to identifying best practices and the highest performing cloud providers. |
