Industry News
US shoppers made Cyber Monday the biggest online shopping day in history with a 20.6 percent increase in online sales, according to the latest cloud-based analytics findings from IBM.
IBM reported a 19.7 percent increase in Thanksgiving Day online sales as holiday shoppers once again went online for the best deals.
Compuware Corporation will be monitoring and analyzing the critical mobile performance of top US retailers and provide ongoing analysis and commentary on the performance of retailers' mobile sites during peak shopping periods, like Black Friday, Cyber Monday and beyond.
Despite the shortest shopping season since 2002, the Adobe Digital Index 2013 Online Shopping Forecast predicts record growth for online sales on Thanksgiving with $1.1 billion and Black Friday with $1.6 billion, increases of 21 and 17 percent, respectively.
Forrester forecasts $78.7 billion in US online sales this holiday season (including mobile and tablet sales), projecting double-digit growth rates for the third year in a row with a 15% increase over 2012's $68.4 billion in sales.
Riverbed Technology announced important improvements to its partner program that will simplify processes, training and competency certification to help partners capitalize on new market prospects and accelerate their growth.
With Service Release 4 for Enterprise Alert, Derdack presents drag & drop management of business-critical alarms.
ManageEngine announced the launch of ManageEngine Server Monitor, the free iPhone app for Windows server monitoring.
Keynote is tracking critical mobile and web performance metrics for major US online retailers this holiday season.
WildPackets announced a new line of appliances for capturing and analyzing network data: Omnipliance CX, Omnipliance MX and Omnipliance TL.
uTest and BlazeMeter have formed a partnership to offer expertise and ease in executing, monitoring and interpreting performance tests using the open source testing framework, Apache JMeter.
Compuware Corporation is providing a daily analysis of the HealthCare.gov site to determine if improvements being made throughout November are having a positive impact on performance.
Ipanema Technologies announced its new ip|engine40 in two forms: ip|engine40so and ip|engine40ax.
Shunra Software announced an update to its Shunra NV software, the v8.7 OEM release.
Ixia announced a new family of feature rich, easy-to-use Net Tool Optimizer products that provide enterprise visibility for smaller network deployments such as remote and branch offices.
Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) released its newest EMA Radar Report titled, EMA Radar for Application Discovery and Dependency Mapping (ADDM): Q4 2013.
Riverbed Technology announced a milestone in the integration of its Riverbed Steelhead wide area network (WAN) optimization product family and its Riverbed Cascade network performance management (NPM) product family with the introduction of Cascade Profiler and Shark 10.5.
Boundary has enhanced support for companies hosting data and applications on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud with the announcement today of a new IT Operations Management service for AWS CloudTrail users.
Goliath Technologies announced that both MonitorIT and HyperThetical for NetScaler fully support all major mobile device technologies.
SolarWinds announced its network mapping and discovery solution, SolarWinds Network Topology Mapper (NTM) 2.0, extended its discovery and connection of virtual hosts beyond VMware vSphere to include virtual machine mapping for Microsoft Hyper-V, enabling complete mapping visibility of network and virtual resources.
