This November 27th (Black) Friday most certainly means two things: crowded malls and crowded e-commerce sites. Every year we hear about sites not being able to handle the rush of shoppers at their online venue. Will the growth in cloud computing during 2009 make a difference in this year's Black Friday news? I sure hope for my own shopping pleasure, companies like Sears, Saks and Kohl's learn from their lack of website performance on last year's "Cyber Black Friday."In 2008, Black Friday Looked Grey Without Cloud Coverage. There was news of e-commerce sites going down or simply being way too slow. Nothing is more annoying to the online shopper (who shops on line for convenience, ease and quickness) than a slow website - except for a downed website... and in today's world, with cloud computing services that are there to make life for ecommerce sites so much easier come Black Friday with advantages like scalability, elasticity and pay-per-use, there's almost no excuse for an under performing website.
Cloud computing is economical for any site that experiences peaks and valleys b/c the company no longer has to purchase loads of IT capital that can meet that peak (which can easily be exceeded on a day like Black Friday anyway) all year long. The site simply puts their website in the cloud and pays for whatever traffic they experience as they go which can amount to immense IT savings. What e-commerce site would hesitate to experience the vast advantages of cloud computing?
Guess we'll find out come Cyber Black Friday...
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