Cloud Bursting provides a solution for scaling between peak demand and running minimal IT environments with low fixed costs. Day to day IT activity for consistent businesses can be trended, but what about companies with great fluctuation and volatility in IT demands? Think banks on the 15th and 30th of the month, florists on Valentine’s day and Mothers day as well as most retailers on “Black Friday”. Historically, most of these companies build to about three quarters of business days managed in peak demand scenarios, but run IT operations at full capacity the remaining 25% of the time, losing money on unused capacity.
