Cloud Readiness Self-Assessment: 30 Key Questions
Uncover Organizational Readiness for Cloud Transformation
March 2018
The Cloud Readiness Self-Assessment uses a sampling of thirty questions across eight Cloud Readiness Domains to provide a rapid analysis of your organization’s overall cloud readiness.
Cloud Portfolio Management
A Strategy for Optimizing IaaS Competition and Lowering Cost
December 2017
Cloud adoption is accelerating, and the rapid rise of Cloud computing has strained IT governance, security and oversight processes as they adapt to deal with new technologies, services, and managing costs. This whitepaper on Cloud portfolio management provides a framework by which an organization can control and govern existing private cloud services as well as new public cloud offerings.
360° Enterprise Cloud Readiness Assessment Framework
A Cloud Readiness Framework to Accelerate Your Cloud Transformation
September 2017
This Cloud Readiness Framework whitepaper will facilitate the Cloud computing adoption process for organizations seeking to harness the transformational power of Cloud computing. However, even if your goals are modest, this Cloud Readiness Framework will accelerate the transformation process to achieve new levels of business and IT performance.
Webinar Video: 360° Cloud Readiness Framework
A Capability Model to Accelerate Cloud Transformation
August 2017
This Cloud strategy download is an integral guide for any senior IT decision maker during any stage of the Cloud adoption journey. Discover which Cloud archetype your organization falls within, possible weaknesses, and guidance for developing a sound Cloud strategy moving forward.
Whitepaper: Why Cloud Strategy Matters Now
The Cloud Strategy Imperative and What You Should Do About It
August 2017
This Cloud strategy download is an integral guide for any senior IT decision maker during any stage of the Cloud adoption journey. Discover which Cloud archetype your organization falls within, possible weaknesses, and guidance for developing a sound Cloud strategy moving forward.
eBook: The Successful Executive’s Guide to Selecting the Right Cloud Provider
January 2016
Learn how to get a clear view of cloud costs and best price-performance for your IaaS purchase. Don’t risk making an uninformed cloud purchase decision. Move to the cloud with confident — download your free eBook today.
2018 Top 10 Public Cloud IaaS Providers Price-Performance Report
March 2018
The 2018 public cloud IaaS providers comparison report analyzes the performance of four different VM sizes for each provider, and reports on performance and stability results for CPU, Block Storage, and Memory. Based on the performance data collected and published prices, the cloud service providers are ranked by the CloudSpecs Value Score™.
2017 Top IaaS Cloud Services Price Comparison Report
September 2017
The 2017 IaaS Cloud Services Price Comparison Report provides in-depth analysis of VM pricing for 17 of the top cloud service providers. This single report compiles and analyzes the prices of five different sized VM’s based on hourly, monthly, annual, multi-year commitments.
2017 Top 10 European Cloud Service Provider Price-Performance Report
May 2017
The 2017 European Cloud Service Providers Report is an in-depth analysis of the European IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service) marketplace. The world’s leading public clouds with data centers in Europe are ranked based on price-performance value. The report compares data from the analysis of ten top IaaS providers for four different VM sizes; measuring vCPU, memory performance, and block storage performance.
Website Performance a Comparison of LiquidWeb, Amazon, DigitalOcean and RackSpace
May 2017
Despite all of the similarities that can be found with web host providers, Liquidweb commissioned this report to explore a key differentiator that distinguish the user experience. Faster performance can lead to a better website experience for users and this report compares leading providers including Amazon, Digital Ocean, Liquidweb and Rackspace.
2017 Top 10 North American Cloud IaaS Provider Price-Performance Report
February 2017
The 2017 Cloud IaaS Provider Benchmark Report is the most in-depth analysis of the North American IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service) marketplace ever conducted— ranking the world’s leading public clouds based on price-performance value. The report compares data from the analysis of ten top IaaS providers for four different VM sizes; measuring vCPU, memory performance, and block storage performance.
2016 IaaS Cloud Providers Comparison Report
October 2016
In-depth analysis of VM pricing for 16 of the top cloud IaaS providers in the world. This single report compares multiple VM sizes based on hourly, monthly, annual, and multi-year commitments.
2016 top 10 European IaaS Cloud Price Performance Report
March 2016
The European Cloud Service Providers 2016 Report is the most in-depth analysis of the European IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service) marketplace ever conducted. Nearly four million data points were collected on 19 qualified IaaS providers with data centers in Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland.
2016 Top 10 North American IaaS Cloud Price Performance Report
January 2016
The Cloud Vendor Benchmark 2016 report is the most in-depth analysis of the North American IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service) marketplace ever conducted. Nearly four million data points were collected on 17 qualified IaaS providers for four different VM sizes; measuring vCPU, memory performance, and block storage performance.
Cloud Performance & Price Performance: 1&1, Amazon AWS, Aruba Cloud, CloudSigma, and Microsoft Azure
June 2015
Description: SolidFire commissioned this report on behalf of 1&1 to explore the performance and price-performance differences across 5 different cloud providers’ virtual environments. Key VM components examined include: virtual processors, disk performance, and internal network performance.
Cloud Performance Benchmark Series: Part 2
May 2015
For part two of the Cloud Vendor Benchmark 2015 Report, CPU and memory performance tests are conducted on five different VM sizes across 15 leading IaaS providers.
Cloud Performance Benchmark Series: Part 1
April 2015
Part one of a two part series provides a price comparison of 15 leading cloud providers— This is one layer of detail required to make informed purchase decisions.
Performance Analysis of Virtual Machines on NxtGen ECS and Competitive IaaS Offerings
April 2015
NxtGen commissioned this benchmarking analysis to examine the relative performance of major VM components including virtual cores, memory, block storage, and internal network for NxtGen Enterprise Cloud Services (ECS), Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Rackspace Cloud Servers.
Performance and Price-Performance Analysis: Internap AgileCLOUD and Amazon EC2
March 2015
Internap commissioned this performance and price-performance benchmarking analysis that examines common applications using synthetic tests. The report specifically examines three different types of web servers and two types of databases.
Generational Performance Comparison: Microsoft Azure’s A-Series and D-Series
February 2015
In Fall 2014, Microsoft Azure released its D-Series Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), significantly improving performance over the standard A-Series. Performance and pricing are both key considerations in evaluating public-cloud options.
Cloud IaaS Performance & Price-Performance: SherWeb, AWS, and Microsoft Azure
January 2015
Cloud Spectator was commissioned by SherWeb to gauge the performance of different virtual machine (VM) sizes on three public cloud providers. Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure were included in this study for comparison with SherWeb.
Comparison of Windows IaaS Environments
January 2015
Cloud Spectator was commissioned by Expedient to gauge the performance of virtual machines (VMs) on several public cloud providers. Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Rackspace were included in this study for comparison. Both performance and price-performance were examined to evaluate the value of each provider’s VM.
Comparing Major Cloud Service Providers: Virtual Processor Performance
September 2014
Cloud computing continues to play an increasingly important role for IT organizations in 2014. In partnership with Cloud Spectator, Gigaom Research conducted research to determine how three major cloud providers — Amazon EC2, Microsoft Azure and Rackspace Cloud — perform with regards to processor and memory.
The Cost of a Virtual Core: Amazon EC2 VS. CenturyLink Cloud
May 2014
CPU performance and price/performance analysis of Amazon EC2 and CenturyLink Cloud servers in US data centers. The document compares performance and price performance across similarly sized virtual machines from 1 vCPU to 16 vCPUs (written in conjunction with our partner at Structure Research).
Intel® Performance Over Generations of Processors on Cloud Infrastructure [UPDATED]
December 2013
Cloud Spectator measured Intel processor performance across 4 generational offerings: Intel® Xeon® Processor E5520 2.27GHz, Intel® Xeon® Processor X5650 2.67GHz, Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2670 2.60GHz, and Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2670 v2 @ 2.50GHz. The report analyzes the advancement of Intel CPU performance over the generations, using Expedient’s offerings as a practical cloud environment to test in.
Comparison of Performance Across Generations of Rackspace Cloud Environments
November 2013
Performance analysis of Rackspace Cloud servers in US data centers. The document compares performance across First Generation, Next Generation OpenStack, and Performance Servers offerings available from Rackspace Cloud.
Performance and Value Analysis of the Top 14 Cloud Providers
October 2013
Performance and pricing analysis of the top 14 IaaS providers based on CPU, RAM, disk, and internal network performance: Amazon EC2, Dimension Data, Fujitsu, GoGrid, HP, IBM, Joyent, Micosoft Azure, Rackspace, Savvis, SoftLayer, Tier 3, Verizon Terremark, Virtustream
Intel® Performance Over Generations of Processors on Cloud Infrastructure
July 2013
Cloud Spectator measured Intel processor performance across 3 generational offerings: Intel® Xeon® Processor E5520 2.27GHz, Intel® Xeon® Processor X5650 2.67GHz, and Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2670 2.60GHz. The report analyzes the advancement of Intel CPU performance over the generations, using Expedient’s offerings as a practical cloud environment to test in.
Cloud Computing Performance a Comparative Analysis of 5 Large Cloud IaaS Providers
June 2013
This report highlights and analyzes the performance of 5 of the largest cloud providers in the market today: Amazon EC2, Rackspace OpenStack Cloud, HP Cloud, SoftLayer CloudLayer Compute, and Windows Azure.Results from the 5-day experiment prominently display the performance differences in providers.