LONDON -- Cable&Wireless Worldwide (CWW) today announced that it has joined CloudSleuth, a partner community that monitors cloud hosting services across the world and fosters the development of industry best practices for the cloud.

As a CloudSleuth partner, CWW will join other leading cloud providers and participate in the CloudSleuth Global Provider View. This free service gives businesses real-time benchmarking data for the performance, availability and responsiveness of public cloud services.

“There are still barriers to the adoption of cloud, and concerns around availability and SLAs feature prominently. The Global Provider View gives an unbiased analysis of the performance and availability of public cloud hosting providers to help organisations make informed cloud purchasing decisions. We are pleased to be building on our Compuware relationship by becoming part of the CloudSleuth community,” said David Bartholomew, director of flexible computing at Cable&Wireless Worldwide.

Cable & Wireless Worldwide plc (London: CW)