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White Paper: The State of Cloud Storage The State of Cloud Storage 2013 Industry Report A Benchmark Comparison of Performance, Availability and Scalability Executive Summary In the last year, Cloud Storage Providers (CSPs) delivered over an exabyte of data under contract. This astonishing growth heralds a new era for how storage is delivered and consumed. The CSP market has seen new providers, new functionality, improved platform maturity, increased adoption in the enterprise and significant price reductions. Amazon’s 1 S3 service crossed the 1-trillion-object mark , a significant indication of platform maturity, and all major CSPs dropped their prices multiple times. As public cloud storage becomes critical to enterprise infrastructure, independent testing and monitoring of these systems is becoming all the more critical to IT. Nasuni publishes this annual report to share the information that we assemble in order to properly evaluate CSPs for our own use. Cloud storage is a key component of our storage-as-a-service solution, much like the traditional system vendors leverage commodity hard drives in their storage arrays. Nasuni must monitor every change, improvement or update within the CSP market, and constantly evaluate which CSPs best enable us to provide the highest quality service to our customers. In our 2012 report, tests demonstrated that Amazon S3 and Microsoft Azure Blob Storage were the two strongest players in the market and that, although other offerings showed potential, they had not yet matured enough for use in enterprise storage solutions. This year, our tests revealed that Microsoft Azure Blob Storage has taken a significant step ahead of last year’s leader, Amazon S3, to take the top spot. Across three primary tests (performance, scalability and stability), Microsoft emerged as a top performer in every c