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Jeffrey Churchill - who has written 5 posts on Application Performance Engineering Blog – Shunra Software.

“From the Boulevard of Broken Dreams…”

Friday, January 22, 2010

I was recently requested to support a Federal Agency that was tasked with validating the performance of an application to be globally deployed. Due to current events the timelines for testing and certification had become critical and the contractor responsible for the project was under enormous pressure to complete this engagement quickly. In conversations with [...]

Discussion & Buzz at the I/ITSEC Show Earlier this Month

Monday, December 28, 2009

I recently had the pleasure of attending the ITSEC Modeling and Simulation show in Orlando, Florida. This event featured the latest solutions in Gaming and Remote Learning for Dept of Defense clients deployed around the world. Based upon conversations with both the vendors and potential users of these products it quickly became evident that a [...]

Washington Mandates Health Data Revolution

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

The recent passage of funding to address ineffienciacies in patient record creation and information transfer has created a new opportunity for pre deployment application testing. Current “paper based” systems are impracticle and expensive to maintain. Due to the enormous amount of digital data that will replace current files a systemic test methodology must be instituted [...]

Challenges in Modeling Diverse Federal Network Topologies

Monday, March 16, 2009

If you work for the federal government in IT then you know first hand that the complexity of Federal network and application deployments frequently include a diverse mix of many transport technologies. Standard terrestrial connectivity is frequently linked via satellites to enable a global reach for solutions accessed by both civilian and military personnel. The [...]

Federal Stimulus Plan-Billions For IT

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Details recently released to the public describe the budget and breakdown of spending for the IT portion of the new Federal Stimulus plan. As detailed in the attached article up to 20 billion dollars assigned to Health IT upgrades alone. An additional 6 billion dollars allocated to broadband network refresh. The ability to model WAN [...]