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This year, the National Retail Federation projects that 137 million consumers will shop between Thanksgiving Day and Cyber Monday. Retailers have stocked their shelves and warehouses and are already weathering the traffic storm that comes with this time of year. 

While the profit potential of the holiday season is the upside for retailers, there are many IT challenges related to successfully managing this increase in traffic – ensuring networks stay up, servers can handle demand and data is protected should something go wrong. In store and online, Black Friday sales are dependent on a sound IT infrastructure. On the flip side, Black Friday and Cyber Monday present many opportunities for retailers to capitalize on the massive amount of data collected at this time. To stay on top in the market, it’s crucial for retailers to understand and leverage data analytics tools this season. 

How is retail IT preparing for this all important weekend? Here are a few idea from some top industry experts:  

"Enterprises are increasingly leveraging cloud platforms like AWS for greater elasticity and scalability," says Varma Kunaparaju, Chief Technology Officer at Vistara. "IT teams want contextual visibility, policy-driven automation and dynamic service management across on-premises, private and public cloud environments. Vistara has been specifically designed to meet this operational and business need. As a leading IT operations management platform, it’s our mission to rapidly support critical AWS services.

According to the "Asia-Pacific Network-based Advanced Malware Analysis (NAMA) Solutions Market" report published in October, Frost & Sullivan forecasts that the NAMA market in Asia Pacific reached $133 million in revenue in 2015 and will grow to $940 million by 2020 as this security technology gains greater adoption. Due to the need for cost effective solutions, the analyst firm expects the cloud-based sector of the market to grow at 60 percent, outpacing by 17 percentage points the growth for on-premises solutions (expected to grow at 43 percent).

The facility is designed to serve customers who seek managed private clouds and hosting environments, with a focus on fully managed VMware environments.

Viptela will demonstrate its SD-WAN platform integration with Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (Amazon VPCs) at the AWS re:Invent 2016 Booth 131 from November 28 to December 2. During the same conference theCUBE will be interviewing Viptela Vice President of Product Management Ramesh Prabagaran and Keith Schafer, Network Architect for US Foods, a Viptela customer.

Mojo Networks regional sales managers and channel account managers will be working closely with Westcon-Comstor to bring resellers into the Mojo Force program. Westcon-Comstor will be distributing Mojo throughout the United States and Canada, with a focus on enterprise commercial and managed service provider (MSP) business. Mojo’s solution complements and enhances the products offered through the Westcon-Comstor Unified Communications and Collaboration Solutions Practice.

The findings are a subset of data from the 2016 Kaspersky Lab Corporate IT Security Risks survey, which confirms cyberattacks are not uncommon to businesses throughout the world. In just the last 12 months on a global scale, 43 percent of businesses experienced data loss as a result of a breach. When taking a closer look at businesses in North America, the data reveals that these organizations are significantly less protected against attacks compare to businesses worldwide. For enterprises, nearly half (44 percent) in North America suffered four or more data breaches in the past 12 months alone, which is double the amount that businesses worldwide suffered (20 percent).

The Alfresco managed offering advances the flow of digital business by providing a robust content-centric platform allowing users to collaborate on business-critical content, all with the network isolation and security of a dedicated AWS Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), and without the dedicated internal resources for ongoing Alfresco and AWS management. The Alfresco platform on AWS makes high-throughput processes such as processing millions of invoices and managing highly confidential contracts more efficient in the cloud.

Embotics, the cloud automation company, today announced new capabilities for bi-directional integration between Embotics vCommander and the ServiceNow IT Service Management (ITSM) platform. The new integrations provide customers with an end-to-end solution for extending the ServiceNow platform with multi-cloud automation capabilities. This enables users to have visibility and management to all Virtual Machines (VMs) in their environment regardless of whether they were created inside or outside of an ITSM process. 

The integration of ServiceNow and Embotics provides streamlined automation of key processes and maintenance of accurate data within the Configuration Management Database (CMDB).

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The ASCII Group is a membership-based community of independent MSPs, VARs, and Solution Providers that is based in Bethesda, Maryland. The organization is made up of more than 2,000 channel solution providers worldwide and provides a portfolio of IT business-building services that range from turnkey marketing campaigns to a highly utilized peer-to-peer business referral and lead network. The ASCII Group provides members with dedicated resources for marketing, product research, strategic alliances, public relations, customer retention, vendor research and discovery.