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In an effort to ensure the official Olympic website, http://www.london2012.com, can handle the estimated 1 billion people trafficking the site throughout the games, the London Olympics Organizing Committee turned to SOASTA to outfit the page with its cloud services. SOASTA’s engineers spent six months working with the committee to simulate traffic not only to the Olympics website but across the many mobile apps that tie into it.
SOASTA’s CloudTest simulated activity from servers running everywhere from the United States to Europe to Hong Kong, hitting the site with traffic from as many as 500,000 virtual machines at any given time. SOASTA CEO Tom Lounibos told Wired.com that this is probably the best tested Olympics site in Web history however Yottaa, a Boston-based outfit that helps companies monitor and improve their performance, still claims that both london2012.com and NBC’s Olympics website are performing below average and may have real problems.
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