A few months ago we were contacted by Cloudscaling CEO Randy Bias regarding our work in benchmarking of public IaaS…
Cloud Compute
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…
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,…
RE: BitSource Rackspace Cloud Servers Versus Amazon EC2 Performance Analysis
The BitSource was recently hired by Encoding.com to conduct a performance comparison between EC2 and Rackspace Cloud. The full details…