NxtGen outperforms AWS and Rackspace

NxtGen has outperformed Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Rackspace in the price-performance metric for cloud servers, according to a report by Cloud Spectator. NxtGen Enterprise Cloud Services (ECS) has displayed strong price-performance metric, providing the most value across all five use cases examined in the study.

Cloud Spectator evaluated performance by benchmarking the virtual machines (VM) using industry accepted tools, Geekbench 3, FIO and Iperf tests. The respective benchmarks measured vCPU and memory, storage, and internal network. The testing ensued over the course of a five day period in March, for ensuring sustained performance requirements by the enterprises and pricing was examined in conjunction with the performance tests.

A S Rajgopal, MD and CEO, NxtGen Datacenter & Cloud Technologies elaborated, “We all at NxtGen, are excited to achieve this industry-first milestone, where NxtGen has surpassed AWS and Rackspace cloud servers in price performance. It has been our constant endeavor to strive for best-in-class performance and the Cloud Spectator report results are a testimony to our focus on fulfilling the customer need for low cost of ownership and high quality of service. Enterprise customers are keen to save cost at the infrastructure layer to make more investment of applications ”

The Cloud Spectator team ran one iteration of the test suite per day, for benchmarking performance . While on an average, NxtGen’s performance was seen to be 3 – 4 times superior to Amazon and 3 times better than Rackspace, on some parameters like block storage, NxtGen’s cloud servers scored over 10 times higher than their Amazon and Rackspace counterparts.

“An effective purchase assessment would entail comparison of not just price points or features alone. Instead, organizations should quantitatively assess performance and its relationship with price and related features for smart procurement decisions that optimize the relationship between cost of ownership and quality of service,” added Rajgopal.