We all use the cloud, but measuring cloud performance is difficult. I should know. I’ve written benchmarks, and I benchmarked the major public clouds for PC Magazine using Primate Labs’ Geekbench 3 and other programs, which, frankly, weren’t ideal for testing clouds. But now Principled Technologies and the BenchmarkXPRT Development Community have released the CloudXPRT Preview, a free benchmark, which seeks to accurately measure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud performance.
