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The numbers tell the story.

85%WOULD CONSIDER BUYING ONLINE MORE OFTEN FROM A

RETAILER BASED IN ANOTHER COUNTRY IF IT WERE

FASTER AND EASIER

The numbers tell the story.

40%OF ONLINE SHOPPERS WILL BOUNCE IF THEY HAVE TO

WAIT 3 SECONDS OR MORE FOR A PAGE TO LOAD

Source – eMarketer

HOW DOES PERFORMANCE IMPACT YOUR BUSINESS?

ONE SECOND DELAY =

7%

11%

16%

REDUCTION IN ONLINE

CUSTOMER CONVERSION

FEWER PAGE VIEWS

DECREASE IN CUSTOMER

SATISFACTION

Source: Aberdeen Group

HOW DOES PERFORMANCE IMPACT YOUR BUSINESS?

YAHOO FOUND THAT AN ADDITIONAL

ONE-SECOND SERVER DELAY RESULTED IN A

2.8% REVENUE DECREASE(AND NEARLY A 2 SECOND INCREASE IN TIME TO CLICK)

Source: GARTNER

Worldwide spending on cloud services and

infrastructure will grow by 25% in 2014, reaching $100B*

*Source — IDC

Multi-cloud is a clear strategy

for the majority of enterprises

• More than two-thirds will use

2 or more cloud service providers

• Willingness to work with smaller

providers indicates greater leaning

towards multi-cloud

Multi-cloud is the majority approach

65%

67%

Our organization is willingto do business with small

and very small Cloudservices firms if we feel

that they have aninnovative offering

We expect that we willhave to have 2 or moremajor Cloud providers

(Infrastructure, Platformand Applications) to meet

our needs

On a scale of 1-5, please indicate the extent to

which you agree with the following statements

about your firms’ use of external Cloud vendors

N=1000 / Source: IDC 2013 CloudTrack Survey

• Reduces Latency through fast response times

• Improves site uptime through high availability

• Helps you route customers to the closest endpoint for improved experience

• Size and scale to deal with Traffic spikes

• Pay as you grow

Anycast DNS

Cloud Servers: Questions

• Which region?

• Which Provider?

• What’s performance like?

• What’s their uptime?

• How quickly can they scale for you?

Implications of Failure

• Average availability in 2014 = 99.72%

.28% = 1,472 minutes of outage (total of 24.5 hours/year)

• Median annual revenue for the IR500 = $80 million

• Lost revenue due to outages: $223,000+

Internet Retailer 500

• Think Black Friday, Cyber Monday, China Singles day…

• The bigger you are, the bigger the problem

• Prepare well in advance

• Work with providers who have scale

• Technical and contractual flexibility

Good Problem

• Think DDOS…

• Money, Politics or Religion

• Have a plan

• Deal with problem at the edge i.e. as far away from your Data center as possible

• What DDOS mitigation technology and experience do your cloud providers have?

Bad Problem

CHINA

72% of multinational companies reported that

slow or unstable Internet access has impeded

their ability to effectively do business in

China.

CHINA

• Same rules – Content Close to Customer

• Serve everything from the far side

• DNS, CDN, Cloud Servers

Avoiding the Firewall

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