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We are proud to announce that at Cloud Mercato, we have recently crossed the milestone of 20,000 virtual machines (VMs) started since our inception. This significant achievement underscores our commitment to comprehensive cloud analysis and positions us at the forefront of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) benchmarking.   The Power…

Dive into our detailed guide on Block Storage to discover how this essential technology transforms data management. Learn about its advantages, limitations, and comparison with other storage types. Ideal for cloud computing enthusiasts, our guide offers insights into Block Storage's role in modern infrastructure, providing valuable information for businesses and tech professionals. Explore now for expert analysis and comparisons with File and Object Storage.

The cloud computing market has experienced exponential growth in recent years, making the selection of a cloud service provider (CSP) increasingly complex. In this constantly evolving landscape, businesses and developers need clear benchmarks to evaluate performance, costs, and other essential criteria. This article aims to provide an objective insight into…

Sysbench is an open-source benchmarking tool designed to assess the performance and stability of various system components. Initially developed for MySQL as an OLTP benchmark, it has evolved into a versatile tool capable of evaluating CPU, memory, and file I/O performance. Sysbench operates by executing a set of standardized tests,…

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Since Cloud Mercato started to globaly evaluate the whole Cloud Market, one vendor always stands out from the crowd when we talk about European IaaS: Hetzner. Small Cloud provider but well established dedicated servers and collocation sellers. Hetzner is an UFO in the European market (yes, funny for a Cloud),…

Around 2 years after the last m5 and m5a, AWS renewed its Intel series with m6i. In short and avoiding to repeat their announce, they offer better CPU performance, a larger network bandwidth and for the same price than the m5 series. Yes, this is just a provider's annoucement, so…

Among all benchmark tools available online, sysbench is one of my favorite. If I have to give two words to it , it would be: simplicty and reliability. At Cloud Mercato we mainly focus on 3 of its parts: CPU: Simple CPU benchmark Memory: Memory access benchmark OLTP: Collection of…

A decade before, no one was bidding on ARM architecture for server side. It is and was well established in the embebed and mobile systems but it was an odd idea to use it for any layer of a server application. We were able to see only it for some…