Performance monitoring and analysis of cloud computing environment

Cloud Computing is the next big step in the internet´s improvement, which can provides everything to people as a Service, whenever and wherever they want, for many application. It also demonstrates a fundamental technology trends, and it is already apparent that it is reshaping IT processes and marketplace. The term of “moving to cloud” refers to an organization moving away from traditional operational models to updated and new models and organizations, which nowadays has been happened for many enterprises. The performance analysis of cloud environments is very important due to the progress and the popularity of cloud. The results of this analysis would be more serious considering the organizations´ expectation for a huge increase in performance against cost paid, investments performed and huge change in their organizations. The purpose of this paper is to show an overall perspective on cloud analysis criteria and then with the help of simulation of number of scenarios, some of these criteria are analyzed.