Windows Azure Shown to Have the Best IaaS Performance Value
August 20, 2013
Grazed from DZone. Author: Brian Prince.
I just stumbled upon an industry report by Cloud Spectator (www.cloudspectator.com). It ran a test on the top IaaS providers, looking for who had the best performance for the buck. As far as I know, Windows Azure and Microsoft had nothing to do with this report.
The abstract of the report:
With a lack of standardization in the IaaS industry, providers freely use unique terminology to describe their VM resource allocations. How do you compare an ECU to an HPCCU to a vCPU? This report examines the performance and pricing of 5 of the world’s largest IaaS providers over a 5-day period, and provides a process to clearly determine the price-performance value of a cloud provider, addressing the issue of standardization in the marketplace…
I do like the process it used. First, it found a similar server configuration from each vendor. In this case it was an Ubuntu server with 4GB of RAM. And yes, Windows Azure runs Linux as a first class citizen. It even has open source SDKs and native tools for Linux. Then it used an industry trusted tool, Unixbench, to compare the performance of the servers. It did this over different days, and at different times of the day…
Read more from the source @ http://architects.dzone.com/articles/windows-azure-shown-have-best