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Five-nines availability: Always-on infrastructure delivers system availability during the holidays’ peak loads

Dynatrace

For retail organizations, peak traffic can be a mixed blessing. Five-nines availability: The ultimate benchmark of system availability. Traditionally, teams achieve this high level of uptime using a combination of high-capacity hardware, system redundancy, and failover models. But is five nines availability attainable?

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Ten years of page bloat: What have we learned?

Speed Curve

And if that already wasn’t enough, the number of images on a page has been linked to lower conversion rates on retail sites. These numbers should not be taken as a benchmark for your own site. You can see this by looking at the synthetic test result for Sears.com (again, available via our Industry Benchmarks ).

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What is page bloat? And how is it hurting your business, your search rank, and your users?

Speed Curve

And if that already wasn’t enough, the number of images on a page has been linked to lower conversion rates on retail sites. These numbers should not be taken as a benchmark for your own site. In other words, images comprised almost 75% of the total page weight. More on that later.) How quickly do they show up?

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Is Intel Doomed in the Server CPU Space?

SQL Performance

A close monitoring of the hardware enthusiast community, including many of the most respected hardware analysts and reviewers paints an even more dire picture about Intel in the server processor space. This made it easier for database professionals to make the case for a hardware upgrade, and made the typical upgrade more worthwhile.

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