RightScale gets your cloud ready for the holidays

Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Barb Darrow.

There’s nothing like the holiday shopping season to test an e-commerce site’s ability to ramp up and down as needed. RightScale says it can help sites proactively respond to changing loads so they don’t run out of juice and don’t pay for more resources than needed.
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The beauty of cloud computing is that it can scale up and down as needed. This is particularly helpful for retail businesses, which see huge spikes and valleys in demand during the holidays. Now RightScale says it can help them more proactively manage their cloud resources to meet demand and ramp down resources as demand fades…

RightScale’s ”Cloud for the Holidays” offering kicks off in October and runs through mid-January. RightScale performed such services on a one-off basis for customers over the years, but realized there was demand for an actual productized version of that service, said Kim Weins, VP of marketing for the Santa Barbara, Calif.-based company. RightScale analyzed aggregated customer data to see how workloads in e-commerce, online gaming, consumer electronics and entertainment workloads spiked and cratered in the October-January period to help its customers plan for future holiday loads…

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