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

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. Dont let it happen to you! Scaling for E-Business presents analysis techniques for quantifying and projecting every element of your e-business sites 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 pay