Relocating an application or data center to the Cloud carries many of the same risks – and mandates the same care, testing and analysis –  as moving these entities to another physical location within the enterprise. It is extremely important to understand the effect of changing network conditions, such as latency, on system performance before migrating application components to the Cloud. By validating performance beforehand, organizations avoid costly production bottlenecks that can offset the expected cost savings of the move.

Shunra’s network virtualization for software testing solutions allow the enterprise to plan migration projects and successfully deploy applications to the cloud by conducting reliable and accurate pre-deployment testing and validation. Shunra helps identify any potential issues before a move is made and helps in determining the right plan of action to meet SLO requirements.

Shunra helps enterprises prepare for Cloud migrations by:

• Capturing network constraints across all divides of the Cloud, including discovery of interval statistics such as latency, jitter, packet loss and bandwidth constraints;
• Replaying these real-world impairments in a test lab;
• Automatically recreating multiple network scenarios, including best- and worst-case conditions;
• Enabling a better understanding of the impact of data center location and performance on end-user sites.

Planning a Cloud migration with Shunra's network virtualization enabling a reliable software test ensures that end-user experience is validated, mitigation costs are reduced and focus is maintained on other strategic initiatives.