Storm On Demand Declared Best Cloud Computing Service

The cloud computing analyst www.CloudHarmony.com has completed its fourth round of benchmark testing of cloud computing platforms, and Storm On Demand from Lansing's Liquid Web Inc. came out on top in memory input and output over such industry giants as Amazon EC2 and Rackspace Cloud.

Also, Cloud Harmony conducted a round of benchmarking that was specifically focused on raw CPU power. Cloud Harmony determined that Storm On Demand 48GB Cloud Server was the top performing server and when compared to Amazon EC2, Storm On Demand was 57 percent faster at nearly half of the cost.

Cloud Harmony benchmarked more than 150 different cloud server configurations and more than 20 cloud computing companies.

Cloud Harmony's reported noted the following:

* Storm On Demand was "by far the most diverse heterogeneous infrastructure."
* "Storm's 48GB cloud server was the top performer out of all of our benchmarked servers with 42.5 CCUs and a Geekbench score of 13020. This is most likely due to the very new and extremely fast Xeon X5650 'Westmere' hardware it runs on."

The top performers in the Memory IO benchmark category were Storm on Demand (6 servers with scores 116 and above), and EC2.

All benchmarked cloud servers were configured almost identically using CentOS 64-bit. To compute the score, the results from each of the seven benchmarks on the baseline server are compared to the same benchmark results for a cloud server. The baseline server benchmark score represents 100 percent for each benchmark. If a cloud server scores higher than the baseline it receives a score higher than 100 percent (based on how much higher the score is) and vise-versa for a lower score.

To view the full report, visit http://blog.cloudharmony.com/2010/06/cloud-server-benchmarking-part-4-memory.html.

Storm On Demand is a proprietary cloud computing platform and server hosting infrastructure developed by Liquid Web's software development staff. Storm On Demand makes it quick and easy to deploy and manage cloud servers from within a Web browser. Storm features include instant server setup, utility style hourly billing, ability to clone server images, easy server scaling and complete backup/restoration capabilities.

Storm On Demand is a wholly owned subsidiary of the managed hosting company Liquid Web, which was founded in 1997. Storm servers are deployed within Liquid Web's 90,000-square-foot Cloud Data Center in the Lansing area.

More at http://stormondemand.com or www.liquidweb.com.

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