Whether it's planned or unexpected, a flood of traffic hammering any system can be a real shocker as the bits and pieces come crashing down around the ops team and the CIO stops by your desk "for a little chat" about what the hell just happened!? We hope this episode will give you some simple advice about how to be prepared technically and organizationally to cope with point load when it happens to you. In other words...this is how to not end up listed on the PerfBytes News of the Damned.