Abstract

The emergence of cloud computing as a viable path for implementing enterprise-class computing solutions brings with it many opportunities. Cloud computing also challenges prospective customers to understand the actual performance delivered by various solution providers.

Dimension Data commissioned Tolly to benchmark the system performance and networking throughput of web/app servers running on its public cloud solution and compare them to similar configurations running on platforms offered by Amazon Web Services, IBM and Rackspace.

Testing included benchmarking key system resources and network throughput across three categories of web/application cloud servers. The Dimension Data cloud servers showed consistently high performance across the range of resources benchmarked.