Almost 23% of Large On-Demand, Cloud and SaaS Companies Poorly Available
November 7, 2013
Grazed from Business2Community. Author: Jorg Bouman.
Nowadays, internet companies and their associated customers are increasingly relying on the Cloud for their services. This obviously has many advantages. However, there are also a few very serious downsides of providing and using software, infrastructures and services from the cloud. Most of the time a lot of business processes are completely depending on the continuous and uninterrupted delivery and performance of the services of these internet companies. If a service faces unexpected downtime, business processes could potentially come to a complete stop with all the possible and serious consequences.
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Availability of on-demand, cloud and SaaS companies
Because of the major importance of availability for software, infrastructures and services from the cloud for both the providers and their customers, Uptrends decided to monitor a selection of the largest and emerging companies on their availability (uptime). Among the companies that we have tested there are is a selection of companies that provide application platforms, infrastructure, management tools, internet marketing software, business management-, CRM- and vertical applications. Uptrends monitored 184 companies and their websites for a period of 30 days (from the 29th of September to the 29th of October)…