| U.S. holiday online sales fell 3% U.S. online sales during this year's full holiday season fell 3%, according to comScore, marking the first year-over-year decline since the Internet research company began tracking e-commerce in 2001. Customers dissatisfied with IP telephony monitoring, management capabilities In a recently released report by the Webtorials Editorial/Analyst Division, there was both bad news and good news for enterprises implementing IP telephony over their WANs. The bad news is that the most important features are also the ones with which users are most dissatisfied. The good news is that tools are available to help address these needs. Web sites falter as holiday season opens The big test of retailers' Web sites occurred in the days following Thanksgiving, and a number of top retailers at times couldn't keep up with the heavy loads, according to Web monitoring firms. in particular, a number of retailers struggled with availability issues on Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving. 2008: The year in network architecture This is the last newsletter of the year - and that means it's time for the annual glance backward before moving forward into 2009. Cisco revs up competition with ’09 blade plans, security moves Next year will see Cisco deliver a ‘Big Bang’ in switching, blade servers for the data center, high definition TelePresence conferencing for the home, and a security plan for virtualized and cloud computing environments. Retail standards group to tackle virtualization security in '09 In the coming year, the PCI Security Standards Council will tackle a number of new areas of concern, such as computer virtualization, where it may set security guidelines for use in card processing. Given virtualization's growing popularity, that has a lot of people paying attention. Avaya looking to catch unified communications wave in 2009 For Avaya, 2009 could solidify the company's top spot on the unified communications sales charts, putting it in the best position to reap even more sales as the world economy improves in the years following, industry experts say. But it faces formidable competitors -- Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco, Nortel, Siemens, IBM, Microsoft -- that are equally hungry. Podcast: 2009: This is the year to automate IT After a year of kicking the tires on IT process automation and seeing increasing costs in offshoring/outsourcing, many are convinced that 2009 will bring further investment in automating the manual IT processes as a way to cut costs while still extending IT services to the business. NetIQ's Chris Pick discusses the trends for 2009 with Keith Shaw, and also explains why IT process automation is like a giant universal remote control. (25:02) 802.11n: hot technology for '09 As 802.11n technology matures, this year will see wireless LANs become an increasingly viable replacement for wired LANs. CEO John Chambers: someone to watch in '09 In a faltering economy, all eyes are on Cisco and its (once?) fearless chief watching for signs of health or distress. Also: View a slide show. Slideshow: Arista Networks: start-up to watch in '09 Arista makes the top 10 list as much for its people as its technology, a high-density, 10 Gigabit Ethernet data-center switch that features a customizable network operating system. 10G Ethernet: hot technology for ‘09 With per-port pricing at less than $4,000, 10GigE switches now are affordable for the enterprise wiring closet or data center. Slideshow: FastSoft: start-up to watch for '09 The company stands out for its unique approach to accelerating the speed of data transmissions over the wide area. Read the story. January giveaways from Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet
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