Application Performance Engineering Blog – Shunra Software

Analyzing and remediating latency sensitive applications part 2 Oracle Clinical

In the previous post http://www.shunra.com/shunrablog/index.php/2009/08/14/data-center-relocation-questions-and-answers-part-1/ I presented an example of a common performance problem with applications that host executables on a remote shared drive. As common as that problem is, it is usually a legacy problem, most new applications follow a more best practices architecture usually involving a web based front end for the application. [...]

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Cloud computing adoption rises so what should you do about it?

I have been meaning to address the impact that cloud computing has on performance engineering but haven’t had the time to rigorously tackle this issue. After all, there are serious implications both for vendors that deliver applications and services from the Cloud as well as enterprises that are rapidly migrating more and more services to [...]

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Is Microsoft Quietly Providing an Alternative to WAN Acceleration

As part of our service offerings at Shunra’s professional services, we help our clients analyze the performance ROI of WAN acceleration. We also wrote a best practices paper about it here http://www.shunra.com/uploads/pdf/WAN-acceleration-whitepaper-031909.pdf. Which is why I was very interested in learning about 2 new developments from Microsoft. These developments provide  improved performance for branch office [...]

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