Microsoft Windows Azure is once again the top cloud performer platform globally in the latest Compuware Cloudsleuth survey. However, like other offshore providers its performance in Australia is less than inspiring with much slower response times than most other regions of the world and an order of magnitude slower than the top local performer.
CloudSleuth, an online tool which shows how well cloud computer companies are providing their services in different parts of the world, has gone live. According to the system, Sydney based users of Google Apps are currently experiencing backbone network latencies of around 15 seconds, compared to 14.15 seconds for Microsoft's Windows Azure and almost 18 seconds for users of Amazon's EC2 cloud.
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