Over the past years, cloud storage highly increased its performance by establishing NVMe-SSD as a standard. Dropping conventional serial (or SATA) has allowed stepping up to next level of performance — increased bandwidth, much more IOPS and improved efficiency under storage related workloads. The growing need of lower latency drives and boosted throughput for users…
DetailsCloud Transparency should be thought of as a crucial element of any cloud strategy. Transparency is especially important given the dynamic nature of the Cloud computing industry where Cloud services and prices are constantly changing. How can you be sure you are spending money efficiently in the Cloud? The Cloud computing industry is dynamic and…
DetailsEvery day, we’re faced with choices— from what to eat or watch on Netflix to the type of video game to play next, we’re faced with choices each and every day. And getting started on the Cloud is no different. Is it AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, or IBM Cloud? What about an alternative or specialized…
DetailsFinding a way to compare Cloud providers can often seem like comparing apples to oranges. From afar many providers seem similar, but upon closer inspection, you quickly realize they’re entirely different species altogether. In other words, comparing Cloud providers is hard. Since the explosion of Cloud computing, providers have rapidly innovated their Cloud services with…
DetailsWe recently conducted a publicly available study on the largest European Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) to measure price-performance value in the industry. The findings are packaged in our 2017 Top 10 European Cloud Providers reports. Based on a transparent methodology, we ranked the top 10 European cloud service providers to help the enterprise with an unbiased…
DetailsEarly this year, the Cloud Spectator research team conducted an exhaustive industry study to determine 2017’s best IaaS service provider in North America based on price-performance value of public cloud offerings. The report was released in late February. We set out to rank the best IaaS service providers and arm the enterprise buyer with an…
DetailsBack in May, we were asked about differences in cloud offerings between different geographic regions served by the same providers. Given that many of the larger providers advertise the same environment (similar hardware, configuration, etc.) from region to region, one would assume that performance between products be similar. We knew that pricing would vary across…
DetailsBack in 2014 we tested Microsoft’s Azure A-series public cloud offering against the then newly released D-series. From this data, we created a report for GigaOM entitled ‘Generational Performance Comparison: Microsoft Azure’s A-Series and D-Series’. The D-series Virtual Machines (VMs) are focused on higher performance with more memory. With processors touted as 60% faster than…
DetailsWe recently conducted the most extensive, publicly available study on the largest North American Cloud service providers (CSPs) to measure price-performance value across the industry. We set out to test 25 providers that met the criteria, however, only 17 providers with North American data centers were tested to find the top 10. The findings are…
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