The Gartner Cloud Decisions tool has a module containing data for the pricing of cloud instances from all the major…
Comparing CDN Services with Cloudharmony
Content delivery networks (CDNs), are highly distributed edge-based cloud delivery platforms. CDNs provide functionality such as content acceleration, API caching,…
Performance Test: Comparing DNS services from major CSPs
CloudHarmony enables you to measure DNS query resolve time for a range of DNS services, including Akamai, Easy DNS, Google…
News Wrap-up – Issue #10
This CloudHarmony blog features Cloud related news stories and announcements that you may have missed during your busy week. AWS…
Azure Cloud Compute Network Test
Running a recent network test for Azure Cloud Compute across Australia and Japan. For this test, both the highest and…
News Wrap-up – Issue #9
This CloudHarmony News Wrap-Up blog features Cloud related news stories and announcements that you may have missed during your busy…
Performance Test: Amazon S3 in APAC
Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is an object storage service provided by AWS. An Amazon S3 network downlink and…
Gartner Cloud Scores Update: Google Cloud Analytical Data Stores
Gartner has published an update to Google’s Solution Scorecard for Cloud Analytical Data Stores, which is now accessible from the…
Data Insights: Cloud Storage Latency in Asia
The CloudHarmony website contains data related to a variety of Cloud services, for multiple regions and providers. In this opportunity,…
News Wrap-up – Issue #8
This CloudHarmony News Wrap-Up blog features Cloud related news stories and announcements that you may have missed during your busy…
Performance Test: Google Cloud Storage
Earlier this year, a network performance test was run for Google Cloud Storage in EMEA and North America. You can…
Performance Test: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
We recently ran a Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) performance test from an office situated on the east coast of Australia.…
News Wrap-up – Issue #7
The News Wrap-Up blog features Cloud related news stories and announcements that you may have missed during your busy week.…
Performance Test: Amazon Lightsail
Amazon Lightsail is a virtual private server (VPS) product which allows users to build applications and websites with low-cost, pre-configured…
News Wrap-up – Issue #6
This blog features Cloud related news stories and announcements that you may have missed during your busy week. AWS announced…
Gartner Cloud Scores Update: Azure Cloud Analytical Data Stores
Gartner has published an update to Azure’s Solution Scorecard for Cloud Analytical Data Stores, which is now accessible from the…
Performance Test: Tencent Cloud Virtual Machine
Running a performance test for Tencent Cloud Virtual Machine, across their regions in North America (NA) and Europe, shows significantly…
News Wrap-up – Issue #5
This blog features Cloud related news stories and announcements that you may have missed during your busy week. Microsoft adds…
Performance Test: Amazon EC2 Instances in APAC
Amazon EC2 instances are hosted in multiple locations around the world. Within Asia Pacific, there are currently 10 available regions,…
Looking for a better-performing Google Compute Engine zone for your application?
Above are the results of a network performance test we ran this week for Google Compute Engine in the United…
Data Insights: Compute Latency in North America Over the Last 7 Years
Gartner’s CloudHarmony provides Latency data for numerous providers and regions. This time, we are looking at the fastest and slowest…
News Wrap-up — Issue #4
This blog features Cloud related news stories and announcements that you may have missed during your busy week. With an…
Performance Test: Tencent Cloud Object Storage
We performed a network downlink and latency test this week for Tencent Cloud Object Storage across several regions. This test…
News Wrap-up — Issue #3
This blog features Cloud related news stories and announcements that you may have missed during your busy week. Google announced…
Cloud Decisions Now Includes IBM Bare Metal Servers for VPC
Gartner’s Cloud Decisions is a collection of online tools that allow users to make informed decisions concerning their cloud needs.…
Selecting a DNS provider? Test DNS query resolve times in under 2 minutes
Are you in the process of selecting a DNS provider? CloudHarmony enables you to measure DNS query resolve time for…
News Wrap-up — Issue #2
This blog features Cloud-related news stories and announcements that you may have missed during your busy week. IBM introduced IBM…
Data Insights: Uncovering Latency for CDN providers across North America and Oceania (Since 2015)
Gartner defines “content delivery networks” as highly distributed edge-based cloud delivery platforms. These platforms provide functionality such as content acceleration,…
Azure Cloud Storage Network Test
Running a recent network test for Azure Cloud Storage across several regions in Americas, EMEA and APAC. Latency and downlinks are reasonably…
Mapping Your Way to the Cloud with CloudHarmony
Humanity has long recognized the significance and usefulness of maps to their lives. Indeed, the history of mapping stretches back…
Performance Test: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Above are the results of a network test I ran this week for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in several regions around…
News Wrap-up
This blog features Cloud related news stories and announcements that you may have missed during your busy week. Oracle has chosen…
How does your CDN provider measure up?
Content delivery networks are highly distributed edge-based cloud delivery platforms that provide functionality such as content…
Data Insights: Google Cloud Storage Network Test
Running a recent network test for Google Cloud Storage across several regions in North America and Europe. Latency and downlinks look…
Data Insights: ICMP Latency for Cloud Storage in North America
We know that latency is a key element in analyzing cloud performance. A higher latency has a negative impact for users, including…
The Cloud: A Way Into the Future
Everyday, businesses generate huge volumes of data, both structured and unstructured, forming what is known today as big data. Analysis…
Top Technology Trends Impacting DevOps
Manjunath Bhat, VP Analyst at Gartner, recently presented at the Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference…
Top Trends Impacting Infrastructure and Operations
Jeffrey Hewitt, VP Analyst at Gartner, recently presented at the Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference…
The State Of the Distributed Cloud Market
Angelina Troy, Senior Director Analyst at Gartner, presented “The Blurred Line Between Cloud, Data Center and Edge: What Is Distributed…
Data Insights: Check the Network Performance of Your Azure Virtual Machine Instances
I ran a network downlink and latency test this week for Azure Virtual Machine instances in the US. Here are the results of that test: In…
Choosing the right compute instance for your budget
When choosing the right Cloud product, consider multiple features and use case scenarios to make a final decision. You should have a good…
Cloud Providers – Comparing them is just “too easy mate”
This morning I ran a Cloud Network test, comparing various providers, and the test took less than 3 minutes to run. Conduct your own…
Database Migration: Do cloud providers meet your requirements?
Gartner predicts that, by 2023, 75% of all databases will be in the cloud. However, migrating from on-premises to the cloud presents some…
Spotlight: Cloud Availability Zones – Global Expansion
Google recently announced an expansion to its infrastructure with the opening of a new cloud region in Santiago, Chile. They also…
Data Insights: DNS Query Test Results Around the World
Gartner’s CloudHarmony website contains freely available data for about 20 Cloud DNS services, including DNS Network Performance. This is…
How To Build a Cloud Migration Cost Estimate
Migrating to the public cloud can take months or even years and involve a complex mix of workload migration, application modernization…
Leveraging the Power of the Cloud for Real-time Analytics
With ever evolving requirements and increasing customer expectations within the Data Analytics domain, it is becoming important now more…
Spotlight: Assessing the CDN capabilities of Cloud Application Platform Services
Gartner’s latest Solution Criteria/Scorecard research for cloud application platform services (CAPS) includes a set of 114 criteria to…
Data Insights: Cloud Storage Network Performance in North America
The CloudHarmony network test is a free tool that Gartner provides, allowing users to measure connectivity to cloud services in realtime….
CDN performance matters
CDN plays a major role in DDoS by focusing on keeping web services available. With CDN, a web service can be cached in thousands of…
Latency & why it matters
Below is one of my favourite geeky maps of the world. It is of course the submarine cable map of the world. https://www.submarinecablemap…
Who wants free Cloud performance analysis?
Yep, you read that right – it’s free! Gartner’s CloudHarmony is a cloud assessment and benchmarking tool that provides objective…
AWS S3 Performance Test
Running a recent S3 performance test across several regions. Latency and downlinks look good, but there’s some variance. For this…
Cloud Harmony: Data, Analytics, and Insights into Cloud Computing
Hello everyone out there in technology world. At Gartner, we strive to provide our clients with the insights they need…
DNS Marketshare Alexa Fortune 500 | Feb 2015
This post provides current marketshare statistics for managed DNS services amongst top Alexa websites and US Fortune 500 companies. The…
Compute Marketshare Alexa Fortune 500 | Feb 2015
This post provides marketshare analysis for compute services (virtual machines) and top Alexa and US Fortune 500 websites. We compile…
CDN Marketshare Alexa Fortune 500 | Feb 2015
This post provides marketshare analysis for CDN services and top Alexa and US Fortune 500 websites. We compile this marketshare…
Compute Marketshare Alexa Fortune 500 | Dec 2014
This post provides marketshare analysis for compute services (virtual machines) and top Alexa and US Fortune 500 websites. We compile…
CDN Marketshare Alexa Fortune 500 | Dec 2014
This post provides marketshare analysis for CDN services and top Alexa and US Fortune 500 websites. We compile this marketshare…
DNS Marketshare Alexa Fortune 500 | Dec 2014
This post provides current marketshare statistics for managed DNS services amongst top Alexa websites and US Fortune 500 companies. The…
DNS Marketshare Alexa Fortune 500 | Nov 2014
This post provides current marketshare statistics for managed DNS services amongst top Alexa websites and US Fortune 500 companies. The…
CDN Marketshare Alexa Fortune 500 | Nov 2014
This post provides marketshare analysis for CDN services and top Alexa and US Fortune 500 websites. We compile this marketshare…
Compute Marketshare Alexa Fortune 500 | Nov 2014
This post provides marketshare analysis for compute services (virtual machines) and top Alexa and US Fortune 500 websites. We compile…
CDN Marketshare Alexa Fortune 500 | Oct 2014
This post provides marketshare analysis for CDN services and top Alexa and US Fortune 500 websites. We compile this marketshare…
DNS Marketshare Alexa Fortune 500 | Oct 2014
This post provides current marketshare statistics for managed DNS services amongst top Alexa websites and US Fortune 500 companies. The…
Compute Marketshare Alexa Fortune 500 | Oct 2014
This post provides marketshare analysis for compute services (virtual machines) and top Alexa and US Fortune 500 websites. We compile…
CDN Performance Review | Sep 2014
This post summarizes CDN performance using data collected from our cloud speedtest. Information about the speedtest, testing methodology and other…
Compute Marketshare Alexa Fortune 500 | Sep 2014
This post provides marketshare analysis for compute services (virtual machines) and top Alexa and US Fortune 500 websites. We compile…
CDN Marketshare Alexa Fortune 500 | Sep 2014
This post provides marketshare analysis for CDN services and top Alexa and US Fortune 500 websites. We compile this marketshare…
DNS Marketshare Alexa Fortune 500 | Sep 2014
This post provides current marketshare statistics for managed DNS services amongst top Alexa websites and US Fortune 500 companies. The…
Comparing Cloud Compute Services | Jul 2014
Over the years we’ve spent a good amount of time testing and thinking about how to compare cloud services. Some…
DNS Marketshare Alexa Fortune 500 | Jul 2014
This post provides current marketshare statistics for managed DNS services amongst top Alexa websites and US Fortune 500 companies. The…
DNS Marketshare Alexa Fortune 500 | Jun 2014
This post provides current marketshare statistics for managed DNS services amongst top Alexa websites and US Fortune 500 companies. The…
CDN Performance Summary | 2011-2014
This is the first in what I hope to be monthly series summarizing CDN performance using data from our cloud…
DNS Marketshare Alexa Fortune 500 | Apr 2014
This post provides current marketshare statistics for managed DNS services amongst top Alexa websites and US Fortune 500 companies. The…
DNS Marketshare Alexa Fortune 500 | Feb 2014
This post provides current marketshare statistics for managed DNS services amongst top Alexa websites and US Fortune 500 companies. The…
DNS Marketshare Alexa Fortune 500 | Jan 2014
This post provides current marketshare statistics for managed DNS services amongst top Alexa websites and US Fortune 500 companies. The…
Marketshare Alexa Fortune 500 | Oct 2013
This post provides current marketshare statistics for managed DNS services amongst top Alexa websites and US Fortune 500 companies. The…
DNS Marketshare Alexa Fortune 500 | Sep 2013
This post provides current marketshare statistics for managed DNS services amongst top Alexa websites and US Fortune 500 companies. The…
DNS Marketshare Alexa 10000 Fortune 500 | Jul 2013
This post provides current marketshare statistics for managed DNS services amongst top Alexa websites and US Fortune 500 companies. The…
Value of the Cloud CPU Performance
Abstract This post compares CPU performance and value for 18 compute instance types from 5 cloud compute platforms – AWS…
DNS Marketshare Alexa 10000 + Fortune 500 | May 2013
This post provides an update on DNS marketshare statistics for May 2013. This is a follow up to our previous…
DNS Marketshare Alexa 10000 + Fortune 500 | April 2013
This is a followup from last month’s DNS marketshare post. In this post we use the same top 10,000 Alexa…
DNS Provider Marketshare Summary | March 2013
Every few months we mine the DNS servers used by the top 10,000 Alexa sites. We then use various techniques…
Comparison and Analysis of Managed DNS Providers
Introduction This blog post is the culmination of year’s effort researching and developing methods for analyzing and comparing managed DNS…
Is Joyent Really 14X Faster than EC2 and Azure the Fastest Cloud
Many are skeptical of claims that involve benchmarks. Over the years benchmarks have been manipulated and misrepresented. Benchmarks aren’t inherently…
Encoding Performance Comparing Zencoder Encoding Sorenson Panda
A few months ago we were approached by Zencoder to conduct a sponsored performance comparison of 4 encoding services including…
An Unofficial EC2 Outage Postmortem – The Sky is Not Falling
Last week Amazon Web Services (AWS) experienced a high profile outage affecting Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) and Elastic Block Storage…
Introducing Web Services for Cloud Performance Metrics
Over the past year we’ve amassed a large repository of cloud benchmarks and metrics. Today, we are making most of…
Cloudscaling KT Private Cloud Validation Using Benchmarking
A few months ago we were contacted by Cloudscaling CEO Randy Bias regarding our work in benchmarking of public IaaS…
Benchmarking of EC2s New Cluster Compute Instance Type
Two months ago Amazon Web Services released a new “Cluster Compute” EC2 instance type, the cc.4xlarge. This new instance type…
Cloud Server Benchmarking Part 5 | Encoding Encryption
This is the fifth post in our series on cloud server performance benchmarking. In this post, we’ll look at encoding…
Cloud Server Benchmarking Part 3 | Java Ruby Python PHP
This is the third post in our series on cloud server performance benchmarking. The previous blog posts, What is an…
Cloud Server Benchmarking Part 4 | Memory IO
This is the fourth post in our series on cloud server performance benchmarking. In this post, we’ll examine memory IO…
Disk IO Benchmarking in the Cloud
This is the second post in our series on cloud server performance benchmarking. The previous blog post, What is an…
Google Storage a CDN Storage Hybrid
We received access to a Google Storage for Developers account today, and being the curious types, immediately ran some network…
What is ECU CPU Benchmarking in the Cloud
NOTE: This post has been updated after it’s original writing. The original CPU performance metrics did not accurately depict performance…
Cloud Server Performance Benchmarking
We are in the process of developing a benchmark suite to run in the cloud and use as a basis…
Connecting Clouds – Summary of Our Intercloud Network Testing
Over the past few months we’ve been conducting some intercloud network testing. To get started, we first setup testing nodes…
Cloud Speed Test Results
Over the past 2 months we’ve used Amazon’s Mechanical Turk to pay users with high speed, mostly residential Internet connections,…