The Liftr Cloud Distiller
Liftr Insights takes a data-driven approach to cloud market analysis. At the heart of our data analytics methodology is the Liftr Cloud Distiller, our proprietary service core that compares similar products across cloud service providers. The Liftr Cloud Distiller enumerates a list of high-value IaaS and PaaS services, which enables in-depth comparisons and analysis of cloud technologies, cloud services and cloud industry trends.
Our tracking systems are built around the Liftr Cloud Distiller. Cloud Distiller currently tracks and normalizes about 200 unique types of IaaS and PaaS services. We examine each cloud service provider’s services to equate its services to our normalized services in an unbiased and equitable manner. Some cloud service providers services are complex and map into multiple normalized services, other services map one-to-one. Cloud Distiller is a many-to-many mapping of services that enables us to make a fair “apples-to-apples” assessment of a cloud service providers services offering.
We add new cloud service providers to our tracking product by first adding a cloud provider to Cloud Distiller. Then we deploy process and automation to add the cloud service providers to the Cloud Regions Map product.
If you are a Cloud Service Provider interested in being included in tracking for the Liftr Cloud Components Tracker, please contact an analyst.