Cloud computing is more than a short-term trend. There are legitimate benets to companies adopting cloud services into their business such as operational e- ciency, ecient scaling and most importantly reduced expenses in a challenging business environment. The main enabling technology for cloud computing is vir- tualization. Technical characteristics of cloud and virtualization environments needs to be monitored, because software and hardware market are growing very fast, even daily changes could be very important and could have eect on pre- served processes and business continuity.
virtualization, cloud