Howard Beader

Aug 20, 2024 | digitalitnews.com | Howard Beader

A fast, reliable website can significantly enhance user experience, drive customer retention and boost sales. By contrast, a slow or unreliable website can spell disaster for business, detracting from revenue, brand value and user trust. Website performance plays a critical role in determining the outcome of a business—nearly half of all customers (46%) will not return to a website if they experience poor loading time, according to Tech Report.

Aug 29, 2023 | datacenterdynamics.com | Howard Beader |Rhonda Ascierto

Meet DORA: not the TV character, but the Digital Operational Resilience Act, a new EU regulation for the financial sector. Enforceable from January 2025, its primary objective is to establish a unified framework for managing ICT risks in the EU financial industry. By setting standardized requirements and guidelines, DORA aims to ensure financial entities can effectively withstand disruptions, cyber threats, and other challenges in an increasingly digital landscape.

Apr 5, 2023 | apmdigest.com | Howard Beader

Recent data from eMarketer projects that U.S. retail ecommerce sales with accelerate each year through 2027, reaching more than $1.7 trillion and comprising one-fifth of total retail sales. The great societal shift online is no longer an emerging trend, it's how we live, work and play. Now that so much of our lives take place online, consumers have increasingly higher expectations about online experience.

Feb 28, 2023 | networkcomputing.com | Howard Beader

Over the last two years, some of the most significant outages affected major infrastructure and service providers. Internet giants such as Akamai, Amazon, Facebook, Fastly, and Salesforce all experienced failures. If there’s one lesson these outages teach us, it’s that the Internet is more interconnected and fragile than ever. We’ve reached a tipping point where a minor disruption to a single provider or component can have a major domino effect on the wider web.

Feb 28, 2023 | networkcomputing.com | Howard Beader

Howard Beader is responsible for the global go-to-market strategy for Catchpoint's solution portfolio, with a career spanning multiple leading companies and startups. Before joining Catchpoint, Howard was Sr. Director of Product Marketing for ServiceNow. He was responsible for bringing Creator Workflows and the Now Platform to market, building the developer program & the CreatorCon event, and the ServiceNow App Store.