Indiaplaza.com has adopted Microsoft’s Windows Azure platform. 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, enabling it to focus on its core business of selling online.
On an average, thousands of paying customers shop on the portal daily and many more browse through various categories of the site in search of a particular product. Witnessing the increase in online shopping trend in India, the company is expecting exponential growth in the near future.
Srikanth Karnakota, Director, Server and Cloud Business, Microsoft India, said, “Indiaplaza.com is one of the largest e-commerce players and it has adopted the Windows Azure Cloud platform for meeting the demands of its growing customer base.”
K Vaitheeswaran, Founder & CEO, Indiaplaza.com, said, “Since 1999, when we started India’s first online shopping site, we have been using Microsoft applications for our business. When we observed scalability challenges on our site given the rapid increase in traffic and transactions, we decided to move to Cloud Computing and it was an easy decision to opt for Windows Azure.”
Prior to zeroing down upon Windows Azure, IndiaPlaza evaluated a number of local hosters and Cloud service providers but it was not convinced on their ability to scale up to demand in minutes, manage infrastructure seamlessly, provide redundant storage and disaster recovery capabilities.