diff --git a/blobstore/src/main/java/org/jclouds/blobstore/strategy/internal/MultipartUploadSlicingAlgorithm.java b/blobstore/src/main/java/org/jclouds/blobstore/strategy/internal/MultipartUploadSlicingAlgorithm.java
index 0da3bf6c0f..455ab623f8 100644
--- a/blobstore/src/main/java/org/jclouds/blobstore/strategy/internal/MultipartUploadSlicingAlgorithm.java
+++ b/blobstore/src/main/java/org/jclouds/blobstore/strategy/internal/MultipartUploadSlicingAlgorithm.java
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ public final class MultipartUploadSlicingAlgorithm {
    protected Logger logger = Logger.NULL;
 
    @VisibleForTesting
-   static final long DEFAULT_PART_SIZE = 33554432; // 32MB
+   public static final long DEFAULT_PART_SIZE = 33554432; // 32MB
 
    @VisibleForTesting
    static final int DEFAULT_MAGNITUDE_BASE = 100;
diff --git a/blobstore/src/test/java/org/jclouds/blobstore/integration/internal/BaseBlobIntegrationTest.java b/blobstore/src/test/java/org/jclouds/blobstore/integration/internal/BaseBlobIntegrationTest.java
index cb3477d954..b2a501eef2 100644
--- a/blobstore/src/test/java/org/jclouds/blobstore/integration/internal/BaseBlobIntegrationTest.java
+++ b/blobstore/src/test/java/org/jclouds/blobstore/integration/internal/BaseBlobIntegrationTest.java
@@ -633,7 +633,7 @@ public class BaseBlobIntegrationTest extends BaseBlobStoreIntegrationTest {
 
    @Test(groups = { "integration", "live" })
    public void testPutMultipartByteSource() throws Exception {
-      long length = getMinimumMultipartBlobSize();
+      long length = Math.max(getMinimumMultipartBlobSize(), MultipartUploadSlicingAlgorithm.DEFAULT_PART_SIZE + 1);
       BlobStore blobStore = view.getBlobStore();
       MultipartUploadSlicingAlgorithm algorithm = new MultipartUploadSlicingAlgorithm(
               blobStore.getMinimumMultipartPartSize(), blobStore.getMaximumMultipartPartSize(),