For the week of 26 April 2009, our Analyst Picks were a selection of research notes on cloud computing. The Research of the Week award goes to:

"Toolkit: Comparing Cloud Computing Infrastructure Providers"

The cloud infrastructure service market is evolving rapidly and every service provider is unique and the market is evolving rapidly. This Toolkit helps selecting a cloud infrastructure service provider (CISP), conducting a structured evaluation of each vendor's system architecture, network architecture, storage architecture, security capabilities, self-management tools, customer support model, operations quality and pricing model.