We trotted back to Nirvanix's VP of marketing Jonathan Buckley with this information, and he had the following to say in an email: "Looks like the application in the blog that is mentioned here is millions of little transactions. This is what Amazon is optimized for given their ecommerce roots."
Nirvanix, Buckley specifies, was built primarily for large files associated with media and backup -- a 2-Mbyte file was used in Nirvanix's test, he says. He suggests that service providers can optimize for different use cases: a lot of little files, or a lot of big ones.
Hm. We're not suggesting that either vendor has the corner on speed. But this trip down marketing lane indicates that when it comes to buying storage "cloud" services, it's important to ask the vendor some basic design questions.
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