List of top 10 cloud storage providers
It is a separate list than IDC’s recent report which focuses solely on top providers of IaaS, but includes companies with Canadian market share that don’t necessarily have Canadian data centres, namely Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure. By identifying the environments based on performance rather than resource count, users are able to maximize the value in the cloud.Market research firm IDC has revealed the top 10 providers of infrastructure, platform-as-a-service (IaaS and PaaS) and storage with Canadian operations, and in alphabetical order, they are: Bell, CenturyLink, Cogeco, IBM, iWeb, Long View, RackForce, Rogers, SherWeb and Telus. The reality of performance in cloud computing is that it impacts the users differently from one CSP to the next, involving everything from the physical hardware (e.g., Intel or AMD, SSD or spinning disk), to the cost of the virtualized resources. Users may be led to view cloud computing as a commodity, differentiated mostly by services. Performance of the Top 10 European Cloud Service ProvidersĪ lack of transparency in the public cloud IaaS marketplace for performance often leads to misinformation or false assumptions. The information has been integrated into percentile graphs designed to visualize the drastic performance variation captured while testing over time. The graph below demonstrates the large variations in block storage performance and is illustrated using percentile scores retrieved from all 1,194,690 data points collected.
1&1’s VMs demonstrated the best combination of high median performance and high stability with a performance index score of 97 with 3% variability.
For block storage IOPS, that difference spread by 12.6x across CSPs. Looking solely at performance, virtual machines (VMs) differed by 2.4x across CSPs.Key Findings of the 2017 Top 10 European Cloud Service Providers
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Please refer to the complete 2017 Cloud IaaS Providers Comparison for full details on testing methodology and ranking criteria. The graph below ranks the top 10 European cloud service providers based on their overall CloudSpecs™ Score. The following 10 IaaS providers were included in the 2017 Top 10 European Cloud Providers report: Failure to conduct this analysis amplifies any risk associated with overspending or application performance issues. For cloud consumers, this disparity highlights the critical need to conduct performance testing on both providers and existing internal infrastructure prior to selecting a CSP. The results uncovered a 2.4x difference on VM performance alone (CPU and memory) and a 12.6x block storage performance difference between the first and tenth ranked IaaS service providers analyzed in the report. The report analyzes the performance of four different VM sizes for each of the the top 10 European cloud service providers, and reports on the performance and stability results of CPU, memory, and block storage. The findings are packaged in our 2017 Top 10 European Cloud Providers reports.īased on a transparent methodology, we ranked the top 10 European cloud service providers to help the enterprise with an unbiased view of the marketplace. We recently conducted a publicly available study on the largest European Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) to measure price-performance value in the industry.