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What Does Missoni Have to Do With Business Continuity?
Posted September,14,2011 by John Humphreys
Missoni Madness
Missoni Madness. Missoni Mayhem. Missoni Mania. All have been cited by the media as reference to the phenomenon that caused Target’s web site to crash yesterday when consumers flooded the retailer online with hopes of scoring an item from the limited-edition, low-cost designer collection from Italian fashion designer Missoni. Target.com was wiped out for most of the day as a result of the high demand, reminiscent of the most popular shopping days of the year such as Cyber Monday and Black Friday. As a leading retailer that should be prepared to maintain continuity of service on peak shopping days, this unexpected failure to sustain its online retail channel through an onslaught of web traffic and accommodate unusually high demand is being called amateurish by industry analysts and was a high-trending source of frustration among consumers on Facebook and Twitter.
As is often the case, when one company falters, others gain. There is much to learn from Target’s misstep. The bottom line lesson is always BE PREPARED. Ensure your own web site is prepared to sustain traffic peaks, whether anticipated or not. Any organization that relies on the Internet for its business needs to have systems in place to protect and scale infrastructure as requirements dictate. Customers choose Egenera as the product helps them avoid outages by ensuring capacity and also helps them to automatically recover if an outage does occur.
PAN Manager enables an organization to scale computing capacity with demand. It does this by prioritizing workloads so that it can draw resources from lower priority applications or from an unallocated pool of servers. And if there is ever an event that does take down the service, PAN protects them here too. As big spikes happen, the system automatically allocates new servers to handle that demand so instead of forcing a frenzied reaction to an outage, the organization can avoid it all together. In short, PAN brings confidence to the cloud.
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