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Cloud Computing presents unique opportunities to companies to reduce costs, outsource non-core functions and scale costs to match demand.
However, the Cloud also presents a new level of complexity that makes ensuring application performance in the Cloud a unique challenge, in particular with the many different usage and deployment scenarios available.
Perhaps the most popular present scenario uses the Cloud to perform certain tasks where additional computational power is unavailable in a local environment, e.g.: running large scale load-tests or processing large amounts of input data into something else.
Another scenario which is becoming more attractive these days is to actually run applications in the Cloud.
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Andreas has over a decade of experience as an architect and developer, and currently works as a senior performance architect and technology strategist for dynaTrace Software, where he influences product strategy and works closely with customers in implementing performance management solutions across the application life cycle. He is a regular speaker at software conferences, writes for a number of technology publications, and blogs at http://blog.dynatrace.com
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