Indiaplaza.com, an online shopping site has deployed Microsoft’s Windows Azure cloud computing platform to meet growing traffic on its e-commerce portal.

Windows Azure is the development, service hosting, and service management environment for the Windows Azure platform and provides developers with on-demand compute and storage to host, scale, and manages web applications on the Internet through Microsoft's data centres.

With this, Indiaplaza.com aims to manage the high traffic on its portal and smooth buy/sell of various products without having to commit large upfront IT investments. On an average, thousands of paying customers shop on the portal daily and many more browse through various categories of the website in search of a particular product.

Witnessing the increase in online shopping, the company is expecting exponential growth in the near future and chose cloud computing from Microsoft.

Windows Azure’s ability to scale as per demand, combined with other business critical features like availability, resiliency to hardware failures, ability to upgrade applications without downtime were some of the factors it considered before deployment. Windows Azure helps

Indiaplaza.com run the application on the latest versions of the cloud platform through automatic upgrade of compute/database versions along with patches and updates.

Mr K Vaitheeswaran, Founder & CEO, Indiaplaza.com, said: "Prior to zeroing down upon Microsoft’s Windows Azure cloud platform, IndiaPlaza evaluated a number of local hosters and cloud service providers but was not convinced on their ability to scale up to demand at a very

short time interval (in minutes), manage infrastructure seamlessly, provide redundant storage and disaster recovery capabilities and finally chose Windows Azure which met all their requirements at a very low cost."

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