Amazon S3 & Azure are top Cloud Storage Providers - Nasuni

The Cloud storage industry is booming. Although it’s still at a nascent stage, large organizations across the world depend on the cloud storage companies to securely store their data and access them whenever and wherever required. But it is always a difficult task to decide which cloud storage provider you should select. Nasuni, the enterprise storage company, recently came out with a report titled State of Cloud Storage Providers Industry.

 

Interestingly, only 6 of the 16 providers (that were part of the rigorous test) could pass Nasuni’s testing.

 

• Amazon S3
• Microsoft Azure
• AT&T Synaptic Storage as a Service
• Nirvanix
• Peer1 Hosting
• Rackspace Cloud

As per the report, “Amazon S3 and Microsoft Azure were clearly the standouts, with Amazon S3 offering the best overall results. Though Nirvanix was faster than Amazon S3 for large files, and Microsoft Azure was slightly faster when it comes to writing files, no other vendor posted the kind of consistently fast service across all file types as did Amazon S3. Amazon S3 had the fewest outages and best uptime, and was the only CSP to post a 0.0% error rate in both writing and reading objects. And though Microsoft Azure had a slightly faster average ping time than Amazon S3 (likely because Amazon S3 is much more heavily used than Microsoft Azure), Amazon nevertheless had the lowest variability”.

 

You can click here, to read the whole report.