PEER 1 Hosting‘s cloud division Zunicore outperforms Amazon EC2 in terms of the stability of its internal cloud network, according to a report released last week by cloud consulting firm Cloud Spectator.
While CPU performance is around the same area between Zunicore and Amazon EC2, Cloud Spectator sees a drastic difference in their respective internal network performance. Cloud Spectator says the actual speed of a VPN is crucial to a customer’s cloud IaaS purchase decision.
It is worth mentioning that Cloud Spectator was not paid to write this report, which is a common practice among research that compares two competing services. As prospective customers look for cloud options for their business, they may consult third-party, independent studies to help inform their purchasing decision. With this in mind, it is a good idea to keep informed about the different performance studies available to end-customers, as well as the methodology behind them.
“When multi-server applications must maintain a stream of communication, the bottleneck that may occur in a network inside the VPN is a major consideration, and that performance must be reliable for complex and mission-critical applications running on the cloud,” Cloud Spectator writes in its report. “An application that must constantly read and write data from one or many servers depends on the speed of the internal network.”
CloudSpecs Performance Test System is a software suite of open-source, industry-standard server performance tests that can be replicated 4 times a day, 365 days a year. For this test, Cloud Spectator averaged performance over 30 days between July 30, 2012 and August 29, 2012.
“Apart from the fact that Zunicore outperforms Amazon in every one of our CloudSpecs performance measurements gauging the performance of the internal networks, the idea that Amazon’s network performance fluctuates so drastically over time should fire up a red flag. Other notable performers with steady network performance that we have measured include Rackspace and Hosting.com,” Cloud Spectator writes.
Reports such as this one also make a case for customers choosing a different cloud provider over Amazon. In a recent feature on the WHIR, SoftLayer explained how it wins cloud customers from Amazon.
The data Cloud Spectator collects through its testing process is used to measure the value and performance of different cloud providers. The full test results and methodology are explained in detail on its blog.
Talk back: How does performance of your cloud stack up? Do you think customers will be more aware of internal network performance with reports like these? Let us know in a comment.
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Source : http://www.thewhir.com/web-hosting-news/cloud-spectator-study-finds-internal-network-stability-crucial-to-overall-cloud-performance
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