Evaluating Cloud Solutions: NaviCloud® Director Takes on AWS and Rackspace
Nearly every company in the world is evaluating or deploying cloud solutions. But how do you evaluate the many solutions and find the one that’s right for you? The accumulation of the necessary data to base cloud buying decisions is often achieved in production or reproduction models mainly as paid client engagements or trial engagements – which often occurs after the major decisions have been made in the sales process.
In a new report published by Rickscloud, Rick Blaisdell shows the results of a head-to-head analysis he conducted between NaviCloud Director, Rackspace Public Cloud and Amazon Web Services (AWS). Rick walks through the methodology of testing the cloud solutions and gives his feedback on performance.
We think the results are pretty compelling.
In limited load conditions, all instances performed similarly. However, as soon as the number of simultaneous users increased, the systems were stressed, similar to what would be experienced in a real-life scenario, during peak shopping times. As the virtual users increased, transaction wait time and failures increased at a rapid pace.
NaviCloud and NaviCloud Director’s performance metrics exceeded those of Rackspace and AWS in all tests. Rackspace performed better overall than AWS in most of the tests. The performance differences between the tests are likely due to differences in how heavily subscribed a cloud providers system is and the actual performance of the hardware powering the IaaS environment. Newer, state of the art CPU’s, RAM and disk will have more performance and efficiency than hardware just a few years older.
NaviCloud and NaviCloud Director’s performance metrics exceeded those of Rackspace and AWS in all tests.
You can read the full report here, but we are pleased with the results. Navisite commissioned the study and compensated Mr. Blaisdell for his time, but the report and the results therein reflect independent testing and analysis and are solely his work product.
At Navisite, we pride ourselves on building quality, customizable solutions for enterprise needs, and it’s nice to see how we stack up against some competitors. Our NaviCloud platform offers a production-ready, secure and fully managed cloud-computing infrastructure, reducing IT costs and management headaches.
Download the Rickscloud white paper, Choosing the Right Cloud Provider for Your Business.