Archive | May, 2009
Performance Engineering Fundementals Podcasts
Besides being a Senior Consultant, I often get the privilege of conducting customer training sessions for Shunra. It is always a great time educating people on the value of WAN performance engineering and its immense importance when dealing with remote users and clients. Part of our base training package is ‘performance engineering basics’. This is the [...]
Continue reading...Performance Engineering Why so many companies don’t get it – Part 3
29. May 2009
In the previous 2 posts we described several ways in which sub optimal performance engineering practices manifest themselves, as well as identified the lack of goal commonality between developers and performance engineers as one of the key reasons behind these sub optimal practices. In this post I want to look at the problem from a [...]
Continue reading...The three-way race for cloud-computing’s future
26. May 2009
I try to follow the trends in the emerging cloud computing technologies and see how this revolutionary concept finally settles into mainstream. Cloud computing has been the hot buzz for over a year now with everyone trying to innovate or get a piece of the action. A recent article out of CNET (article here) shows that [...]
Continue reading...Is the recession affecting the growth of the web?
8. May 2009
The good news is that there are more than 230 million web sites, the bad news, only 30 million where added in 2008, almost half of the number created in 2007. According to Erick Shoenfled, in TechCrunch (http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/05/08/is-the-growth-of-the-web-slowing-down-or-just-taking-a-breather/) the growth of the web has slowed dramatically in the last year, no doubt affected by the [...]
Continue reading...Performance Engineering – Why so many companies don’t get it – Part 2
7. May 2009
Part 2 (for part 1 click here) Anyone who was ever part of a performance engineering process should be able to relate to the following story: “…Version 3.5 of a critical application is scheduled for release in 6 weeks, the latest stable build (internal version) of the application finally made it to the hands of [...]
Continue reading...Performance Engineering – Why so many companies don’t get it
7. May 2009
Many of you may read the headline and wonder, with so much money spent on performance engineering tools and personnel, surely most companies are getting it right. Well, most companies do get some performance engineering tasks right, but anyone familiar with the industry would agree that all or part of the following happens in almost every IT organization...
Continue reading...I will be presenting a Joint Shunra-IXIA solution at Interop in Vegas from May 19th. – May 21st.
7. May 2009
I have been working with Wesley Hand from IXIA on a joint solution that combines IXIA Test Composer, IxExplorer and Shunra VE. This solution creates an automated network emulation test bed that combines traffic generation, WAN impairments, network simulation and test automation.
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30. May 2009