The cloud offers elasticity and flexibility to meet a range of demands for Big Data initiatives. Not all infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) providers are the same, though, and your organization requires performance and speed advantages to make Big Data initiatives successful. Recently, Principled Technologies ran a Hadoop-based Big Data workload and a series of networking tests on two IaaS providers: IBM® Cloud and Amazon® Web Services (AWS®) Elastic Compute Cloud® (EC2®). Read this research report to learn how an IBM Cloud solution can benefit your organization more than an AWS solution.