Avere SPEC benchmark shows cloud's just as fast as on-premise

Another cheery plug for Amazon S3

Bezos' boys will be pleased while data centre storage admins become fearful; Avere has run a file access benchmark showing file access to Amazon S3 in the cloud is the same as WAN file access to a ZFS data store - and Cleversafe object storage.…

via The Register - Data Centre: Cloud

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