Industry News
comScore reported holiday season US retail e-commerce spending from desktop computers for the first 34 days of the November-December 2016 holiday season to date: $38.0 billion has been spent online, marking a 12-percent increase versus the corresponding days last year.
Vasona Networks unveiled SmartTUNING for mobile network operators to set cell-by-cell policies that precisely manage how any application type performs in the network.
Brocade announced an expanded Brocade SLX family with new switches that feature network visibility and the addition of Brocade Workflow Composer Automation Suites for turnkey automation.
Ziften and LiveAction announced a formal partnership to enable joint customers to easily extend visibility into typical network blind spots including local broadcast domains, wireless domains, east-west data center and public cloud traffic.
Software AG has acquired Zementis, headquartered in San Diego, California.
Sumo Logic announced the immediate availability of its platform on AWS Marketplace.
SmartBear Software named Ryan Lloyd as VP of Products, Test and Development.
New Relic and Sumo Logic launched a new partnership to combine machine data analytics with application and infrastructure performance data in New Relic Insights’ analytics and dashboarding platform.
Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold 2017, the company’s unified infrastructure and application monitoring software, has been named a Bronze winner in the “Best New Version of the Year” category by the Best in Biz Awards 2016.
Embotics announced new capabilities for bi-directional integration between Embotics vCommander and the ServiceNow IT Service Management (ITSM) platform.
IDERA announced four free* tools available on AWS Marketplace, providing customers a range of options for third-party management solutions for Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle Database across Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Datadog announced support for AWS Application Load Balancer, as well as AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM).
Adobe released its 2016 online shopping data for Cyber Monday and the holiday weekend overall. Cyber Monday is on track to hit a new record with $3.39 billion spent online, a 10.2 percent increase year-over-year (YoY).
Riverbed Technology is joining forces with Verizon Enterprise Solutions to deliver an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Direct Connect Bundle solution to support hybrid architecture deployments.
Software AG announced the availability of webMethods Insight Enterprise Edition.
Blue Medora announced its new True Visibility Suite for New Relic.
GroundWork Open Source plans to incorporate Icinga 2, an open source monitoring system, into its GroundWork Monitor Enterprise Product.
IBM forecasts that shoppers will drive double digit growth for retailers around the world on Cyber Monday.
According to the National Retail Federation’s Cyber Monday Expectations Survey conducted by Prosper Insights & Analytics over the weekend, 122 million Americans plan to shop online on Cyber Monday, up from the 121 million who planned to participate last year.
Black Friday set a new record by surpassing the three-billion-dollar mark for the first time at $3.34 billion.
