http://www.websitemagazine.com/content/blogs/posts/archive/tags/bitrefinery/default.aspxTags: bitrefineryenCommunityServer 2008 SP2 (Build: 31104.93)http://www.websitemagazine.com/content/blogs/posts/archive/2011/10/09/performance-and-the-cloud.aspxSun, 09 Oct 2011 22:30:00 GMT1e469e21-c924-44fa-a132-47b5d0a8ad47:17864Pete Prestipino0http://www.websitemagazine.com/content/blogs/posts/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=17864http://www.websitemagazine.com/content/blogs/posts/archive/2011/10/09/performance-and-the-cloud.aspx#comments<hr /> <div><span><strong><img height="100" width="100" src="http://www.websitemagazine.com/images/blog/cloud-mini.gif" style="float:left;margin:15px;" alt="" /></strong></span></div> <div></div> <div><span><strong>Who provides the fastest cloud service? According to CloudSlueth (a Compuware community), the honors go to Microsoft&#39;s Azure platform. </strong></span><br /><span></span><br /><span>CloudSleuth uses the Gomex performance network to determine the reliability and consistency of popular public IaaS (infrastructure as a service) and PaaS (platform as a service) providers. CloudSleuth runs an identical sample ecommerce application on the popular cloud service providers and measures the results over at least six months of historical data.&nbsp;</span><br /><span></span><br /><span>Microsoft&#39;s Azure platform beat out Google App Engine, GoGrid, OpSource, RackSpace, Amazon, TekLinks, BitRefinery, CloudSigma and several others. </span><br /><span></span><br /><span>The report, <a href="https://cloudsleuth.net/web/guest/blogs/-/blogs/134043?_33_redirect=/web/guest/blogs">available here</a>, shows a significant difference between Azure servers running near Chicago and those running in Singapore.</span></div> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://www.websitemagazine.com/content/aggbug.aspx?PostID=17864" width="1" height="1">amazongoogle app enginegogridrackspacecloudPaaSbitrefineryazureIaaScloudsleuthteklinks