37  Chapter 4: Managing Cloud Workloads and Services ✓ Test/development workloads:  Many organizations leverage the cloud as a platform for testing and development workloads. Using cloud services can make  the process of creating and then testing applications  much more cost effective and efficient. In this way, developers have access to a set of common confirmations  and development tools. Testing can be accomplished in a  more efficient way within a cloud environment. Of course, some workloads are simply not suited for a cloud  implementation. One example may be a workload that needs  high performance network storage. Because these workloads  may need to be accessed very quickly, they may not be suited  for the cloud (say in an IaaS model) where you’re dependent  on the Internet for network speed. It makes sense to do a  cost-benefit analysis that looks at your particular workload  and what it costs you to migrate it to the cloud versus the  expected benefit of that move (check out Chapter 3 for more  information). Looking at Workload Use Cases Analytics workload This section gives you two use cases that illustrate the kinds  of workloads described in this chapter. A major maker of life-science tools and integrated systems for  large-scale analysis of genetic variation and functions needed  a cost-effective computer infrastructure. It wanted to expand  to meet growing demand for processing related to genome  research without scaling its IT investment and staffing. A public cloud solution let this company scale operations in  parallel, so it could leverage multiple virtual infrastructures  to different work groups at the same time. This permitted it  to offer genome processing as a service at a competitive cost  per processing run. Its genome analytics application involves  truly huge amounts of data, and provides a wide range of analysis in the form of outcome-focused reports and analytics. These materials are the copyright of John Wiley & Sons, Inc. and any  dissemination, distribution, or unauthorized use is strictly prohibited.