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Cloud Mercato benchmarks thousands of products from most of the Cloud Providers around the globe.
Providing you with up-to-date intelligence, always.

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Cloud Provider pricing and performance intelligence are presented side-by-side based on ten key indices and can be downloaded for easy analysis.

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Current and unbiased benchmarking data allows you to make informed purchase decisions, drive IT strategy, and forecast budgets accurately.

A Single Source for Comparing Thousands of products around the globe

Cloud Mercato’s Cloud Transparency Platform works 24/7 to capture performance data through synthetic and application testing. Pricing is updated monthly, so you always have up-to-date comparisons of Cloud Service Providers at your fingertips.

Don’t waste valuable resources on replicating benchmarking tests on your own. Setup monthly reports to inform decision-makers in your organization on the changing landscape of the Cloud industry.

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True visibility for Cloud consumers can only be achieved by monitoring price and performance on an on-going and consistent basis. Why does it matter?

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Monitor current and prospective Cloud Service Providers before you buy. Optimize workload distribution across VMs from multiple providers, transforming the way you buy Cloud.

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Track up-to-date performance and pricing data to ensure your products are always competitive. Leverage competitor intelligence to stay one step ahead and help gain market share.

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Cloud Transparency Platform is firstly a huge set of data

We regularly collect and keep up-to-date the most importants metrics for your purpose:

+1 managed providers
+1 tested instances
+ managed buckets
+1000 CPU datapoints
+1000 storage datapoints
+500 network datapoints
+1000 price datapoints

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By continuously developing software adapted to Cloud benchmarks, we catch and share our expertise in different perspectives across all key domains.

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