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Noise Filter: Black Friday and Cyber Monday Challenge Online Retailers

November 30, 2009 — “Black Friday,” the day when brick-and-mortar retailers are flooded with shoppers (supposedly turning their balance sheet ink from red to black), has also been a mixed blessing for online retailers, who have to deal with a massive increase in web traffic.

Obama Coverage Weathers Web Traffic Storm

January 21, 2009 — Billed as the most open and accessible in US history, Barak Obama’s presidential inauguration caused record-breaking streaming video traffic for CNN.com, however, the success of this online event marred by delays and Internet slowdowns as websites were unable to handle the flood of traffic.

KITE Intros 1-Click Cloud Testing

December 8, 2008 — In an effort to improve end user experience, on-demand online test and measurement solution provider Keynote Systems has further simplified cloud testing by adding “1-click” functionality in its KITE 2.0 testing platform.

Black Friday Causes Shutdowns

November 28, 2008 — The unofficial beginning of the holiday shopping season, the massive increase in web traffic caused by Black Friday, has been leading to many online retail websites shutting down including large retailers like Sears.

Red Hat Announces Summit Speakers

March 17, 2005 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Open source software developer Red Hat, Inc. (redhat.com) announced on Wednesday the headlining speakers for their first annual Red Hat Summit 2005. The conference will be held in New Orleans from June 1-3 and joins various members of the open source community, including community contributors, developers, customers and partners.

Whois Source Plans Conference

March 4, 2005 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Domain name service provider Whois Source (whois.sc) announced on Friday that it will hold the 2005 Domain Roundtable Conference in downtown Seattle from May 25 to May 27.

Peak 10 Hosts Disaster Recovery Seminar

February 17, 2005 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Data center and managed services provider Peak 10 (peak10.com) announced on Thursday it will host an educational Web seminar on disaster recovery and business continuity online February 24, 2005 at 11:00 a.m. The Web seminar will discuss the importance of disaster recovery and business continuity solutions as well as their availability and affordability to small and medium-sized businesses.

Red Hat to Hold First Annual Conference

January 26, 2005 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Linux distributor Red Hat (redhat.com) is holding its first annual conference for its community, customers and partners, from June 1 to June 3, 2005 at the Hilton New Orleans Riverside in Louisiana.

Traffic Flood Slows Apple Web Site

January 12, 2005 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — According to a report released Tuesday by Internet performance monitoring firm Netcraft (netcraft.com) a flood of traffic slowed the performance of Apple’s Web site yesterday following the release of the company’s new Mac Mini and iPod Shuffle products at the MacWorld Expo conference in San Francisco.

Red Cross Slowed by Tsunami Support

January 5, 2005 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — The Red Cross Familylinks Web site has been overwhelmed with high traffic as relatives search for family members following the massive Tsunamis in the Bay of Bengal. The International Committee of the Red Cross familylinks Web site (familylinks.icrc.org/home.nsf/home/webfamilylinks) is a resource that strives to help those separated by conflict or disaster to find information about their loved ones.