Case Study: ThinkGeek achieves seamless scaling and zero downtime with Webscale Networks

ThinkGeek Inc. - Customer Case Study

ThinkGeek Inc., an online video game merchandise retailer, was struggling to eliminate downtime during major traffic spikes while avoiding the cost of overprovisioning infrastructure. After a Cyber Monday outage in 2012 and concerns about support from its public cloud provider, the company turned to Webscale Networks for an auto-scaling e-commerce solution that could keep pace with unpredictable demand.

Webscale Networks implemented predictive scaling to keep capacity ahead of demand and prevent overloads and outages across cloud providers and regions. The result was 100% uptime, seamless scaling during 2x–3x traffic increases, and major business impact: on Cyber Monday 2013, ThinkGeek handled a 73% traffic increase with 100% availability and a 43% increase in transactions.

ThinkGeek Inc.

Jed Seigle

President