Carrenza Powers the Cloud for Red Nose Day 2011

Technology partner delivers scalable solution, ensuring zero downtime for charity’s websites and donations platforms

Comic Relief has announced that it will be working with its trusted cloud computing partner Carrenza, to provide and oversee the donations and core websites platforms for Red Nose Day.

Carrenza’s enterprise cloud computing platform will be used to process hundreds of thousands of donations, in just a few hours, raising funds that will give extremely vulnerable and disadvantaged people in the UK and Africa a helping hand to turn their lives around

This partnership builds on the success of Carrenza’s work with Comic Relief for Sport Relief and Red Nose Day over the last four years.

During Sport Relief 2010, Carrenza provided the same trusted technology to handle a staggering 125 donations per second at its peak, contributing to the £44.2 million that was raised in total. Carrenza is providing the same scalable hosting solution for Red Nose Day 2011, which has the processing power and resiliency needed to support Comic Relief’s record-breaking donations platform.

Tim Savage, Donations and Web Technology Manager, Comic Relief, said: “Red Nose Day only takes place once every other year, so it’s crucial that we get it right every time. This is especially true for the technology that we bring on board.”

Savage continued, “We need to be able to scale up to meet spikes in demand over a matter of seconds, avoiding any downtime and without wasting resources on latent hardware for months in-between. Carrenza has enabled us to overcome this challenge, providing us with a resilient platform that can scale immediately to meet our needs and has never let us down.”