Internet News Internet Investing Internet Technology Windows Internet Tech. The average customer doesn't care about load balancing, peak times, traffic flows, faults or failures, over-provisioning or server capacity bottlenecks. Send your replies to forum feedback. And that is precisely what Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Peakstone Corporation is all about.
Response time varies tremendously and traffic varies from second to second.
Because of the complex nature of the Internet, Peakstone, which was founded by a team of infrastructure software experts in 1999, set out to solve the problem of delivering predictable performance, Buiocchi explained. Using adaptive control theories developed originally by a group of scientists at Stanford and UC Berkeley, the Peakstone engineers developed a predictive statistical model that can not only measure service levels and performance but also control key components of the infrastructure to enforce response-time objectives, according to Buiocchi. Businesses today rely on service level agreements, many of which have loopholes that allow an Internet service provider or application service provider an outlet in case of poor response times or service failures. What we're saying is no, you need to make that commitment and hold that commitment, and that's going to attract more customers to you. Also, he said, service providers tend to overprovision because they don't have a real handle on actual capacity.