Gilt Groupe, an online retailer with millions of unique visitors to its website, could lose a large percentage of its daily profits in just 10 minutes of downtime. Gilt Groupe was looking to make the move to virtualization for a traffic management solution.
With millions of unique visitors to its website and over 5,000 requests per second during peak periods, online retailer Gilt Groupe could lose a large percentage of its daily profits in just 10 minutes of downtime. Looking to ensure a consistently excellent customer experience, increase revenue, and decrease back-end costs, Gilt Groupe made the move to virtualization with Riverbed® as their traffic management solution.
Gilt Groupe saw an immediate cost reduction because it was able to de-commission servers as soon as they started using Riverbed in the cloud. Over the year, a combination of the Riverbed content caching and the service-orientated architecture has reduced the back-end server requirement by 50 percent.