E-commerce

Rackspace E-Retailers Rule The Hot 100
Fresh off a record-breaking Cyber Monday, the holiday season is in full swing for Rackspace’s cadre of e-retail partners.
Filed in Partner & Customer Updates on Dec. 4, 2012 by Adrianna Bustamante
E-Commerce Tip: Load Testing: A Critical Step
The busy holiday shopping season is only a month away and the National Retail Federation forecasts 12 percent growth in online sales over last year.  Sounds like good news, doesn’t it?  It is, if you can keep your virtual doors open and sales flowing around the clock. Recently, Rackspace offered up five tips to prep your e-commerce site for the holiday crunch. We invited some of our e-commerce partners to provide a guest blog post looking at those tips and offering further advice.  
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on Nov. 5, 2012 by RJ Rowntree
E-Commerce Tip: Optimization Through Configuration
The busy holiday shopping season is only a month away and the National Retail Federation forecasts 12 percent growth in online sales over last year.  Sounds like good news, doesn’t it?  It is, if you can keep your virtual doors open and sales flowing around the clock. Recently, Rackspace offered up five tips to prep your e-commerce site for the holiday crunch. We invited some of our e-commerce partners to provide a guest blog post looking at those tips and offering further advice.  
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on Oct. 29, 2012 by RJ Rowntree
E-Commerce Tip: Pre-Planning For The Holidays
The busy holiday shopping season is only a month away and the National Retail Federation forecasts 12 percent growth in online sales over last year.  Sounds like good news, doesn’t it?  It is, if you can keep your virtual doors open and sales flowing around the clock. Recently, Rackspace offered up five tips to prep your e-commerce site for the holiday crunch. We invited some of our e-commerce partners to provide a guest blog post looking at those tips and offering further advice.  
Filed in Partner & Customer Updates on Oct. 22, 2012 by Adrianna Bustamante
Is Your Site Ready For The Online Holiday Sales Explosion? [Infographic]
For an e-retailer, if their web site goes down for a day during the holiday shopping season, that can mean an average loss of $13 million in sales.
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on Oct. 18, 2012 by Christina Weaver
E-Commerce Tip: Identify Single Points Of Failure
The busy holiday shopping season is only a month away and the National Retail Federation forecasts 12 percent growth in online sales over last year.  Sounds like good news, doesn’t it?  It is, if you can keep your virtual doors open and sales flowing around the clock. Recently, Rackspace offered up five tips to prep your e-commerce site for the holiday crunch. We invited some of our e-commerce partners to provide a guest blog post looking at those tips and offering further advice.  
Filed in Partner & Customer Updates on Oct. 15, 2012 by Adrianna Bustamante
Prep Your E-Commerce Site For The Holiday Crunch
Online retailers have to do a lot maintain their competitive edge. They have to have social and mobile strategies. That have to have lightning-fast page load times.  And they have to offer a great user experience.
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on Oct. 8, 2012 by Adrianna Bustamante
An Awesome CloudU Testimonial
CloudU Notebooks is a weekly blog series that explores topics from the CloudU certificate program in bite sized chunks, written by me, Ben Kepes, curator of CloudU.  How-to’s, interviews with industry giants, and the occasional opinion piece are what you can expect to find.  If that’s your cup of tea, you can subscribe here.
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on Jan. 17, 2012 by Ben Kepes
Cloud Considerations–A Need for Clarity
As I travel around talking to organizations and the decision makers within them about Cloud Computing, I find myself enumerating a list of benefits that many of us believe come with Cloud Computing. The list includes scalability, economic benefits, the ability to focus on core business, etc.
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on Nov. 22, 2011 by Ben Kepes
E-Commerce Cart Comparison: The Basics
We recently published a cross-comparison of four popular e-commerce carts: Magento, OSCommerce, XCart and Volusion. Most shopping carts have similar features: shipping modules, coupons and gift certificates, inventory tracking and numerous other admin and marketing functions. Selecting the best option, though, isn’t simply picking a name out of a hat.
Filed in on Feb. 23, 2011 by Ashleigh Davis
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