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Scaling for E-Business: Technologies, Models, Performance, and Capacity Planning (Paperback)

by Daniel A. Menasce (Author), Virgilio A.F. Almeida (Author)
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Book Info
Presents analysis techniques for quantifying and projecting every element of your e-business site's performance and planning for the capacity needed. DLC: Electronic commerce.

From the Back Cover

Foreword by Jim Gray
Microsoft Research and 1998 ACM Turing Award Recipient

The Complete Guide to Techniques and Models to Evaluate and Plan E-Business Sites!

  • Avoid losing customers due to site crashes
  • Performance modeling and capacity planning for e-business infrastructure
  • Build and analyze customer behavior models
  • Plan your e-business site to avoid frequent upgrades and migrations
"E-business is transforming every element of business in many unknown ways. This book will give its readers a headstart in understanding the quantitative underpinnings of the new environment."
— Howard Frank, Dean, Robert H. Smith School of Business
University of Maryland at College Park

Solid analysis of performance modeling and capacity planning for your e-business site! S low e-commerce sites cost their owners billions and embarrass and degrade their owners' brands. Don't let it happen to you!

Scaling for E-Business presents analysis techniques for quantifying and projecting every element of your e-business site's performance-and planning for the capacity you need, no matter what! Discover how to...

  • Characterize e-commerce workloads more accurately
  • Analyze the performance of authentication and payment services
  • Model contention for software servers, and ensure scalability
  • Model and plan for communications infrastructure
  • Forecast and cope with peak demand
  • Project the impact of agent technologies and non-PC devices

You can't turn to your vendors for these state-of-the-art techniques. But you can turn to Scaling for E-Business-and if you plan to succeed, you'd better!



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Product Details
  • Paperback: 462 pages
  • Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR (May 7, 2000)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0130863289
  • ISBN-13: 978-0130863287
  • Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 7.4 x 1.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #421,121 in Books (See