1. Meeting demand for immediate election results
Reporting firm moves open source application to Azure in one day
Objectives
Citizens excited by first election clamored to site for results.
Existing Servers overwhelmed by demand
Reporter had to move to scalable solution fast
Tactics
Website developer moved open source websites to Microsoft Azure within one day with no coding changes.
Results
Electorate able to receive results without delay
Reporting firm actually saved 83% over other options
CASE STUDY: Azure scalability rapidly delivers Tunisian election results using open source applications
Customer: Medianet
Website:
Customer Size: 50 employees
Country: Tunisia
Industry: Web Development
Customer Profile: Serving Tunisia and abroad, Medianet creates and develops websites offering a complete set of interactive web marketing strategic services including content creation, webmastering and web analytics.
Summary: Responsible for helping report the results of the first free presidential elections in Tunisia in over 50 years, Medianet ran into difficulty when the servers it was using could not keep up with demand from thousands of website visitors. Despite the fact their applications were created using open source products such as MySQL and PHP, Medianet was able to migrate the entire application and workload to Microsoft Azure within one day. This gave it the scalability it needed to meet business needs.
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“Having Azure’s scalability features, when we had a lot of users requesting the website, it was possible to add more resources automatically (only when needed). When the larger number of people stopped making requests to view the website, the resources were once again minimized to handle less traffic.”
— Ali Khader, Chief of Projects, Medianet

2. Market and statistical analysis consultants assure rapid response to requests for high-demand election results
CASE STUDY: Azure scalability rapidly delivers Tunisian election results using open source applications
Customer: Medianet
Website:
Customer Size: 50 employees
Country: Tunisia
Industry: Web Development
Customer Profile: Serving Tunisia and abroad, Medianet creates and develops websites offering a complete set of interactive web marketing strategic services including content creation, webmastering and web analytics.
Summary: Responsible for helping report the results of the first free presidential elections in Tunisia in over 50 years, Medianet ran into difficulty when the servers it was using could not keep up with demand from thousands of website visitors. Despite the fact their applications were created using open source products such as MySQL and PHP, Medianet was able to migrate the entire application and workload to Microsoft Azure within one day. This gave it the scalability it needed to meet business needs.
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“Overall the experience was wonderful and we have duplicated the Azure experience for four other customers! We were able to gain those customers’ confidence by pointing out the Azure platform’s performance and security features!”
— Ali Khader, Chief of Projects, Medianet