Tag Archives: performance

Virtual Server vs. Real Server Disk Drive Speed

December 13, 2009 – 13:09

It’s important to understand the potential differences between virtual server disk drives and physical disk drives, so I wanted to post a very brief blog on the topic.  For this article I’ve chosen to compare the performance of an iSCSI SAN on Gigabit Ethernet to a single SATA disk drive.  The reason for this is [...]

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Cloud-Based Scalability Testing

July 21, 2009 – 08:30

Today SOASTA announced their performance certification program for websites.  This is a pretty interesting development as far as I am concerned.  I’ve watched SOASTA from afar since their inception and I have always though it was a particularly clever use of cloud computing.  Their approach is essentially to use someone else’s resources, Amazon in this [...]

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