Black Friday shoppers bog down retail Web sites

Web shoppers drive Black Friday sales up 11%; Today's branch office Network Optimization Alert NetworkWorld.com | Update Your Profile | Forward this to a Friend >>> Sponsored by APC Virtualization: Optimized Power and Cooling Data centers are routinely and unknowingly missing a great portion of their entitlement from virtualization. Beyond virtualization's undisputed IT benefits – from reduced rack footprint to disaster recovery – is the parallel story of a substantial benefit from optimizing the physical infrastructure that supports it. Learn more Spotlight Story Black Friday shoppers bog down retail Web sites Retail sales on Black Friday topped last year's sales by 11%, but the high volume of shoppers bogged down many retailers' Web sites. Read full story Related News: Web shoppers drive Black Friday sales up 11% Holiday shoppers took to the Web on the day after Thanksgiving, ringing sales worth 11% more than last year's Black Friday tally, according to comScore. Today's branch office The next generation branch office represents a multi-year migration away from branch offices that are IT-heavy to ones that are IT-lite. As part of this migration, the WAN plays an ever increasing role in application delivery. Consider security risks before moving to the cloud A new report from a European security agency highlights some of the risks of outsourcing IT services to cloud providers, and by extension illustrates the importance of carefully choosing which applications you want to run in the cloud. Home networking: How to avoid traffic jams In many households today, broadband Internet connections are used not only for e-mail and Web browsing, but also to stream music and video, play online games and/or perhaps make voice calls using a VoIP service. Redirecting DNS requests can harm the Internet, says ICANN ICANN condemned the practice of redirecting Internet users to a third-party Web site or portal when they misspell a Web address and type a domain name that does not exist. Still haven't found what you're looking for? Consider IT management search technology Companies such as Splunk, Hyper9 and layerX provide IT management data search capabilities that industry watchers say are gaining ground with IT managers looking to quickly gather meaningful data from distributed systems. BMC takes service desk to the cloud via Salesforce.com BMC and Salesforce.com partner to deliver BMC's Service Desk Express on Force.com platform. Today from the Subnet communities On Cisco Subnet: IBM buys Cisco-funded database security firm and What's Next for Brocade?; On Microsoft Subnet: Patches are the productivity problem; On Google Subnet: Android Fragmentation and coloring outside the lines Network World on Twitter? You bet we are Ethernet everywhere! Inside planes, trains, cars and spaceships, Ethernet is a morph master. Here's a look at some of Ethernet's cooler implementations. 7 tools to ease Windows 7 rollout These utilities help you plan, ensure app compatibility and manage images. Virtualization: Optimized Power and Cooling Data centers are routinely and unknowingly missing a great portion of their entitlement from virtualization. Beyond virtualization's undisputed IT benefits – from reduced rack footprint to disaster recovery – is the parallel story of a substantial benefit from optimizing the physical infrastructure that supports it. Learn more Business-Critical Benefits of Workload Automation Solutions This paper explores the current Workload Automation Solutions (WLA) landscape and an innovative solution that addresses historical obstacles to implementation. 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