The C4 family, on average, had a 14 percent increase in integer performance over the C3 family. The c4.8xlarge VMs exhibited the largest performance improvement, with a 19 percent higher integer… Read more »
For the same size VMs, the C4 family showed nearly identical public and private network throughput as the C3 family, with an average increase of 2% for public network throughput and… Read more »
Amazon EC2’s C4 VMs showed an approximate 6 GB/s increase in memory throughput compared to their C3 counterparts across all tested VM sizes. Read more »
Amazon is making efforts to provide highly predictable performance outputs and to match its C4 family’s price-performance with that of its earlier generation C3 family. Read more »
In two weeks, Gigaom brings its big data conference, Structure Data, back to New York City in a big way. Growth in the big data industry has moved beyond infrastructure to include… Read more »
Last week was spent at the IBM InterConnect and Green Data Center conferences in Las Vegas and San Diego respectively. At each of the conferences, there were a ton of great… Read more »
Amazon Web Services recently announced that its customers who pay by Visa and MasterCard credit and debit cards can now be billed in their choice of 11 non-USD currencies. AWS claims… Read more »
InterConnect 2015 Las Vegas is the combination of a few IBM conferences. Past conferences carried quite a bit of overlap in content. As the conversations blurred, it made sense to combine… Read more »
One of the key attributes to a successful cloud deployment is thinking about the strategy holistically. In my post ‘CIOs are getting out of the data center business’, I introduced the… Read more »
In 2014 we saw an increasing number of enterprises engage with and implement big data strategies. Simultaneously, big data pioneers made some big plays that further inspired big data adoption and… Read more »