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el 29-Jul-2008 |
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 New tradition that now accompanies every big sporting event: Breathless warnings predicting that productivity will suffer and the Internet will crash because workers will do nothing but watch the games on their PCs. Next up: The Beijing Olympics, which start in less than two weeks, and will feature 2,200 hours of streaming coverage (but probably not the stuff you want to see).
A survey from Blue Coat Systems tells that 95% of CIOs are worried their networks may fail when the games start, because as few as two people watching the Olympics at the same time in the same office could bring things to a screeching halt.
Plausible? We don't think so. But then again, we don't make a living selling Web infrastructure products. Then again, Blue Coat Systems does -- which means it may just have a vested interest in scaring the bejezus out of people. We'll find out next week.
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