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NATICK, Mass., Feb. 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Nasuni(R), a provider of enterprise storage to large, distributed organizations, today released results from its second annual State of Cloud Storage Report, which tested the speed, availability and scalability of the top five public cloud storage providers. In a reversal this year, Microsoft Windows Azure Blob Storage outperformed last year's leader, Amazon S3.
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Nasuni publishes this annual report to share the information that it gathers in order to properly evaluate CSPs for its own use. In much the same way that traditional enterprise storage vendors use commodity disk drives as components in their products, Nasuni uses public cloud storage from the major CSPs as a component in their Storage Infrastructure as a Service.
And just as these traditional storage vendors constantly test commodity disk drives, Nasuni also regularly tests the major public storage clouds. Nasuni must monitor every change, improvement and update within the CSP market to know which CSPs best enable it to provide the highest quality service and deliver on its 100 percent reliability SLA.
In last year's report, tests demonstrated that Amazon S3 was the top performer due to its overall...