Public Cloud’s a Cheat, SolidFire Says

SolidFire, the company that makes all-Flash solid-state storage for the cloud,
figures the shared multi-tenant cloud is basically ripping users off.

It’s because of the so-called “Noisy Neighbor” phenomenon.

Since the public cloud lets in just anybody with the price of admission,
there’s no telling whether a noisy neighbor will drain the resources needed
to run one’s application especially since applications are designed to
consume as many resources as are available for a task.

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