More news of increasing demand for better storage networks.
I can see it as clear as day now, and it's a FCSAN tidal wave heading this way in 2000.
latimes.com
"Toysrus.com isn't alone among e-tailers who are disappointing customers. Frustrated shoppers across the Web have encountered technical glitches while shopping, Web sites that crash and long-ago orders that still haven't arrived, turning even calm gift-givers into nail-biters."
"Toysrus.com caved as customer traffic increased ten-fold, to what Nielsen/NetRatings pegs at 683,305 visitors. But improvements had the site up and chugging soon after, able to support 1.64 million visitors in the days following Thanksgiving, Nielsen/NetRatings said."
"KBKids.com, however, also had site-crash issues with just more than 715,000 visitors, as did scores of other retailers who found themselves unprepared for the electronic onslaught. In comparison, Internet-only seller Amazon.com chugged along with 4.46 million visitors"
"Toysrus.com said its 500,000-square-foot Memphis warehouse had originally been thought capable of processing the demand--but found itself the victim of its own success"
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