Cyber Monday commerce sales are expected to reach $2.2 billion this year, according to the Adobe Digital Index 2013 Online Shopping Forecast, making the Monday after Thanksgiving one of the most important days of the year for online retailers. Adobe also estimates that Cyber Monday sales would be up about 14 percent to the aforementioned $2.2 billion.
With online retailers betting a large portion of annual revenue on this widely anticipated mega-shopping day, it’s not enough to just plan for just server, storage or network capacity planning based on anticipated traffic for Cyber Monday, or any other high traffic day.
Too often companies approach Cyber Monday from an inside-out perspective, with a network-centric mindset but then miss the big picture. In short, companies must break down the silos between server, storage, networking, software, etc., to better understand what is happening at the end-user level.