When storms hit, the Weather Company needs the cloud
When hurricane winds are bearing down and water is rising across streets and into houses, no one at the Weather Channel wants to be thinking about server capacity or if their website can handle a twentyfold increase in traffic.
When major storms hit, the people at the Weather Channel want to focus on the science behind the weather and getting information out to those who need it most.
That's why the Weather Company has gone all-in with the cloud.
"For us, the days the infrastructure is the most tasked are the days you need to be focused on the business and not on the back end," said Landon Williams, vice president of infrastructure architecture and services at The Weather Company, the parent company behind The Weather Channel, weather.com and Weather Underground. "We have to make sure we perform the best when the weather is at its worst. Our whole ecosystem has to handle it."
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