RightScale: Cloud Bursting Tames Traffic Spikes

Data Center Knowledge (Oct 7 2011) Cloud Computing

1. Downtime. No one likes it, neither consumers or IT managers, much less retailers and online businesses whose revenue streams depend solely on their customers reaching their websites. Enter the age of the cloud, where life is more stable and reliable. Perhaps not quite yet. Outages at Amazon Web Services’ cloud this spring and summer caused outages at social media sites like HootSuite and Reddit (see DCK coverage in April 2011 and August 2011). Such cloud outages lead the layman to ask, “How trustworthy is this cloud technology?” Then last month, retailer Target saw its self-hosted online store knocked offline by a surge in visitors for a widely-advertised sale of limited edition products from the Italian designer Missoni. The downtime occurred three weeks after Target moved off the Amazon cloud, demonstrating that internal infrastructure doesn’t always meet heavy demand, either. (Read Full Article)

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