Compuware Cloud Speed Tests Declare Windows Azure the Winner
October 17, 2011
Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing platform has exceeded rivals: Amazon EC2, Google App Engine, Rackspace, and others in the cloud computing domain in a series of speed tests.The 515,000 tests were conducted by Compuware, an application performance management company, every 15 minutes from August 2010 until July 2011. Compuware used its own testing tool CloudSleuth to run speed tests on the platforms of 25 vendors. For the first time ever, Compuware has made the years worth of data available to the public on their web site.According to the Ars Technica article, Windows Azure Beats Amazon EC2, Google App Engine in Cloud Speed Test, Cloudsleuth Product Manager Lloyd Bloom stated:
Although Compuware tries to make the tests expansive by spreading nodes throughout the world, the results are still highly affected by location. For example, both Azure and Amazon posted poor scores in their Singapore data centers (16.10 seconds for Azure and 20.96 seconds for Amazon, the worst time in the survey) but the discrepancies between North America and Asia are due in large part to limitations in the Compuware testing network. Within Asia, the performance is generally abysmal by North American standards.
Despite it’s apparent limits, the Compuware speedtests should be seen as a first step to understanding the availability, responsiveness and consistency of cloud service providers.
Jasmine Ashton, October 17, 2011
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