rlebherz wrote: Alf,
Interesting article. I think the Cloud services and cloud infrastructure lines are a bit blurred, but I agree with most of what you are saying.
Dont underestimate the SLA's role in accountability. For companies that have dynamic requirements and no down time can be afforded, make sure you have very tight SLAs. For example, OpSource provides a 100% SLA in the cloud and 100%SLA around production application environments. Now 100% is ideally perfect, it comes down to accountability, yo...
BALLSTON SPA, N.Y., Feb. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- ReserveAmerica, the United States' leading outdoor recreation reservation and campground management solutions provider, has broken its previous reservation record on its busiest day of the year by processing over 17,000 reservations on February 1st, booking roughly 67,000 camping nights for the upcoming camping season, an 18% increase over last year's single-day reservation record. Throughout the day, at its peak, ReserveAmerica's reservation system was processing more than 1,600 reservations every few minutes. Campers looking to reserve a great campsite or cabin this coming season can visit http://www.reserveamerica.com/ and search from more than 3,000 parks and over 170,000 campsites and cabins.
"It's great to see the continued growth of camping popularity and adoption of online reservations," said Brendan Ross, President of ReserveAmerica. "We have launched several enhanced online search tools for our valued customers, and it is clearly easier than ever to find a great campsite."
Fun facts on camping:
* More Americans camp than play basketball. (OIA 2006 Recreation Economy
Report)
* ReserveAmerica processes nearly 4 million reservations each year
* 1.6 million campers subscribe to ReserveAmerica's email newsletter
About ReserveAmerica
ReserveAmerica is North America's leading camping reservation and campground management solutions provider. Specializing in complete reservations solutions, stand-alone call center/database management tools, online reservations solutions and park software solutions, ReserveAmerica has successfully managed more than 30 million reservations, with 3.5 million reservations processed in 2005. The Company manages the largest reservable campsite inventory with partnerships throughout North America. ReserveAmerica is an operating business of IAC .
John McDonald
Director, Marketing & Business Development
ReserveAmerica
(800) 695-4636 x 5581
jmcdonald@reserveamerica.com
ReserveAmerica
CONTACT: John McDonald, Director, Marketing & Business Development of ReserveAmerica, +1-800-695-4636, ext. 5581, jmcdonald@reserveamerica.com