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What is block storage?

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.
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Comparative Cloud Analysis: Performance and Value of Denv-R Versus AWS

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…
Why I love sysbench

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,…
Does Hetzner beat the whole IaaS market ?

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),…
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AWS m6i : The why you should abandon your m5

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…
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Why you should use sysbench ?

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…
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Amazon Web Services : M5 vs M5a vs M6g

In other words Intel vs AMD vs ARM. AWS recently released Graviton series for all their main instance types: R6g with extended memory, C6g for compute optimized and M6g for general purpose. Their offering has always been based on Intel but in the past years we saw AMD and now…
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Understand Object storage by its performance

Nowadays anyone who want to smartly store cool or cold data will be guided to an Object Storage solution. This cloud model replaced a lot of usages such as our old FTP servers, our backup storage or static website hosting. The keywords here are "Low price", "Scability", "Unlimited". But like…
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