Pizza Hut has enlisted the services of datacentre provider Virtustream to help it handle the one million online orders it receives every week.
The restaurant chain launched an online ordering service four years ago, but it has recently picked up pace, forcing Pizza Hut to move from its previous datacentre, which the company said was no longer adequate for the expected uptick in web site traffic.
“Our previous datacentre was fine for our initial needs, but as we expanded and offered more services to our customers we outgrew it,” explained Fawad Shah, network and infrastructure manager at Pizza Hut’s parent company, Yum Brands.