London2012.com page views were forecast to run into the billions, a level never before seen in previous events, rivalling the world’s largest enterprise sites. As the best-in-class source of real time London 2012 information, the site needed to deliver high availability anywhere in the world, while maintaining the very toughest standards of protection against denial-of-service attacks and other security threats.

 

This case study looks at how the Games’ IT team worked closely with BT to design, build and deploy a solution that leveraged BT Private Compute to cope with more than a billion users accessing the website at any point in time.