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comScore reported US desktop retail e-commerce spending for Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday 2017: Thanksgiving Day (November 23) saw a 22-percent gain to $1.57 billion in spending to surpass the billion-dollar threshold for the fourth consecutive year. Black Friday (November 24) followed with an even stronger spending day with $2.36 billion in desktop online sales, up 20 percent from Black Friday 2016 and marking the first time it reached the $2 billion milestone from desktop sales alone.
SL Corporation announced the new V5.0a SL-GMS Developer for .NET and V7.0a SL-GMS C++/Developer for both 32-bit and 64-bit editions, to support Visual Studio 2017.
The biggest shopping weekend of the year is right around the corner and 69 percent of Americans — an estimated 164 million people — are planning to shop or considering shopping during Thanksgiving weekend, according to the annual survey released today by the National Retail Federation and Prosper Insights & Analytics.
SolarWinds announced an all-new, breakthrough product and two advanced product updates in a major evolution of its SolarWinds Cloud Software as a Service (SaaS) portfolio.
The new offerings expand the company’s current capabilities for comprehensive, full-stack monitoring with the introduction of AppOptics, a new application and infrastructure monitoring solution; significant updates to Papertrail, providing faster search speeds and new log velocity analytics; and enhanced digital experience monitoring (DEM) functionality within Pingdom.
Instana announced the ability for its Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven application performance management (APM) solution to discover, analyze and monitor Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Logz.io has raised $23 million in Series C funding led by OpenView.
LightStep comes out of stealth and formally introduces its first product, LightStep [x]PM.
Elastic, the company behind Elasticsearch, and the Elastic Stack, announced general availability of its 6.0 release.
Dynatrace announced the availability of Dynatrace within the Microsoft Azure marketplace.
ManageEngine announced dramatic improvements to the correlation engine of EventLog Analyzer, its network log management solution.
Ixia, a Keysight Business, announced TradeVision, a market data monitoring platform to deliver a unique combination of market feed health monitoring and advanced network visibility with preprogrammed support for hundreds of trading venues.
Riverbed announced that during the week of November 13, over 600 employee volunteers will perform more than 1,000 hours of community service at local charitable organizations in 15 of the Company’s largest global locations.
LiveAction released LiveNX 7, featuring advanced management and monitoring of SD-WAN environments, event-driven insights, greater visibility and reporting across the network for on-premise and cloud environments, and tighter integration with IT service management.
SignalFx announced an integration for comprehensive global monitoring for Google Cloud Platform.
Elastic, the company behind Elasticsearch, and the Elastic Stack, acquired Swiftype, a San Francisco-based startup founded in 2012 and backed by Y Combinator and New Enterprise Associates (NEA).
Dynatrace announced the acquisition of Qumram, a privately held company offering advanced session replay technology for mobile and web applications.
ManageEngine has integrated its endpoint management application, Desktop Central, with Zendesk’s help desk platform, Zendesk Support.
Savvius released Omnipeek 11.1, the company’s software for network performance monitoring and diagnostics.
Instana introduced the company’s next-generation Application Performance Management (APM) solution that automatically monitors and manages today’s dynamic microservice applications running in containers.
Goliath Technologies released Application Availability Monitor, a technology to generate application/desktop availability and failure alerts, identify the root cause of issues encountered, and troubleshoot and resolve these issues prior to end users being impacted.