Poor application performance causes companies to lose customers,
reduce employee productivity, and reduce bottom line revenue.
Because application performance can vary significantly based on
delivery environment, businesses must make certain that application
performance is optimized when written for deployment on the cloud or
moved from a data center to a cloud computing infrastructure.
Applications can be tested in cloud and non-cloud environments for
base-level performance comparisons. Aspects of an application, such
as disk I/O and RAM access, may cause intermittent spikes in
performance. However, as with traditional software architectures,
overall traffic patterns and peaks in system use account for the majority
of performance issues in cloud computing.