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Microsoft is thrilled to announce that an independent report published today named Windows Azure the leading Cloud Storage Provider (CSP). The report showed Windows Azure took a significant leap ahead of last year’s leader, Amazon S3, to secure the top spot this year.

In the annual State of the Cloud Storage Industry Report, Nasuni compared leading CSPs and evaluated them based on performance, scalability and stability. According to the report, “…it is clear that Microsoft’s investments in Azure are starting to pay dividends and that the technology they are providing to the market is second to none.”

According to the Report

Windows Azure consistently performed better than all other CSPs in the study, which included Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, HP Cloud Object Storage, and Rackspace Cloud Files.

Windows Azure delivered the best Write/Read/Delete speeds across a variety of file sizes, with the fastest response times and fewest errors.

Windows Azure not only outperformed the competition significantly during the raw performance tests, but it was the only CSP to post zero errors during 100 million reads and writes.

To read the full report, please visit the Nasuni State of the Cloud Storage Industry Report. Additional information can also be found here.

wow impressive.
Now when do we hear about the video games?

yeah azure is good and i think they have a good basis to bring cloud gaming for nextbox.

Weird. I was just talking to an MS-hating friend of mine last night and he went on a mini-rant against MS in general but particularly on them in the cloud. I tried to speak up but he wasn't hearing it. Then you post this, lol. Yes, I sent to him but I don't imagine it'll change anything.

As much as Google annoys me with many of the things they do, I don't hate them. I use (and love) Google Voice to death and still use search a lot as well. I don't understand haters. I guess I'm just a different kind of person ...

Congrats to MS, hopefully they'll continue to integrate cloud possibilities in the NextBox.

Is Skydrive part of Windows Azure?

and MS didnt have to spend $380 million of borrowed money to have this asset :P

I have 0 doubts of Xboxs cloud capabilities

I think you could connect them to each other but Skydrive in itself is not based on Azure, at least the consumer version but as for Skydrive Pro I don't know

That's a pretty general response from people who just hate microsft because they are microsoft. Have been using Skydrive since the year it was born and it never let me down, today I only save my documents on the synced skydrive folder on my PC after all I have 21GB still free to use. Microsoft's cloud push and position is pretty damn strong and I dare to say even better than Google's

Im just like who can't understand how people can hate a product so much just because they like the competitor, I use google search but in the same time I use outlook and skydrive the combo gives me the best of both worlds!