This report reveals findings from a Shunra survey about the top concerns and challenges that performance engineers face in 2013. Based on responses from 316 IT specialists, managers, architects, developers, and engineers, the survey uncovered how performance engineers plan to incorporate performance into application development and deployment plans, important elements to include in 2013 performance strategies, and how to account for production network conditions before deployment.

Shunra surveyed its customers to discover how Shunra technology is being deployed and used to reduce the risk of application performance failures. Based on the information collected, and the average cost of a production incident as reported by industry analysts, Shunra for HP Software is helping customers reduce the number of production incidents requiring remediation by over 15 per year, helping those customers save between $468,000 (for an incident that requires 1 day to remediate) to $2.8 million (for an incident which takes 6 days to remediate) per month.

Over the past decade, IT organizations have increasingly focused on ensuring acceptable application delivery, leveraging two main disciplines: application performance management (APM) and network and application optimization (NAO). Both of these disciplines are traditionally practiced in a reactive fashion, after an application has been developed or a major change has been made to the infrastructure. Increasingly, this risks and costs of this reactive approach are becoming less tolerable.

Corporations worldwide are shifting technology resources and infrastructure to the Cloud. These businesses expect to realize gains in operational efficiency and scalability as a result of the Cloud’s elasticity, and they expect to reduce capital expenditures on IT infrastructure as they migrate to an operational pay-as-you-go expense and offload typical infrastructure management responsibilities (and costs) to the Cloud provider. Download the white paper