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Crowd-sourcing Vs. Automation for Data Center Relocation (DCR) testing

23. July 2010

I recently had two separate conversations with professional performance engineering colleagues of mine, Mark Tomlinson, product manager for HP Load Runner and Performance Center http://www.linkedin.com/in/mtomlins and with Todd DeCapua http://www.linkedin.com/pub/todd-decapua-mba-csm-csp/2/684/673 who until recently managed an industry recognized Automation / Performance / Agile Scrum practice. The topic of the discussion was how organizations should address the [...]

Tuning applications and web sites for mobile users

23. July 2010

More and more of my clients recently asked me about performance engineering best practices for mobile applications. This came as no surprise as we observe the paradigm shift represented by more and more consumers performing more and more of their daily tasks via a mobile device. Here at Shunra we have been working with a [...]

Load Testing for Special Events and Holidays

9. July 2010

The holidays are not typically on our minds this early in the year given that it is currently early July and over 100 degrees Fahrenheit in portions of the Eastern USA. On the other hand, if you have an ecommerce site that has changed since the Holidays last year, then perhaps you should be thinking about gauging your traffic and applying a peak load to the site. Let’s not forget that even the biggest logos have had issues during peak traffic. Many large sites including HP’s outage in 2009, Wal-Mart’s outage in 2006, in 2008 Bloomingdale’s and J. Crew went down, and many others have made the news in recent years because their sites were note ready for the traffic. "...Load testing without taking latency into account gives the site an unfair advantage during load tests, which does not exist in the real world."

Shunra and the Cloud – It’s here!!

23. June 2010

For those of you following my recent posts, this shouldn’t come as much of a shock. Shunra now has an exclusive offer for beta tester of HP’s LoadRunner in the Cloud that lets them use Shunra for HP Software FOR FREE!

NEW! Application Performance Testing in a Virtual Environment

7. June 2010

My previous post about LoadRunner in the Cloud spoke about how Shunra™ for HP Software not only works well in clouds, but actually “completes the picture” for anyone conducting performance testing of applications that will be accessed remotely. I am not alone with these statements. SAP Labs, HP and Shunra are pleased to announce the availability of a new whitepaper, released today, June 7, titled, “Application Performance Testing in a Virtual Environment.”

LoadRunner and the Cloud – It’s here!!

19. May 2010

HP today announced an agreement with Amazon Web Services that enables you to run HP LoadRunner v9.5 in Amazon EC2. The project is currently in beta, so it’s limited to the East US EC2 region, but does already include pre-built AMIs for your Controller (250 VUs) and any size of Load generator (32 or 64 [...]

Shunra on the Road – Interop 2010, Day 1

28. April 2010

Today was the first day of Interop 2010, and the conference & exhibition kicked off with a variety of discussions on performance engineering and exciting opportunities at Shunra’s booth #2056. Top of mind from speaking with attendees were infrastructure virtualization initiatives. Other themes included the need to manage effective data center relocation initiatives, and the [...]

The Value of Leveraging Virtualization for Application Performance Testing

12. March 2010

Virtualization has emerged as one of the leading technologies in today’s market; enabling businesses to more effectively scale operations to meet demand while significantly reducing costs at the same time. Everyone seems to understand what virtualization is, but it’s actually rather difficult to define because the term is used interchangeably to describe a plethora of [...]

Join Shunra’s NEW User Group

9. February 2010

Kicking off the first meeting in Chicago, IL … You are invited to join Shunra’s User Group Community in the Chicago area. Connect with your peers, exchange ideas and hear from experts in application performance management space. What to expect The Shunra User Group’s mission is to provide the user community with a forum to [...]

Testing 3G Hand Held Inventory Devices using Shunra Virtual Enterprise (VE) Suite

8. February 2010

I was approached a couple of days ago by one of our large customers, a major food manufacturer, to help them design a testing cycle for an hand-held device, to scan barcodes on their product’s pallets, as they are being unloaded from supply trucks into their regional depots. The devices utilize a LAN based wireless [...]

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Crowd-sourcing Vs. Automation for Data Center Relocation (DCR) testing

Tuning applications and web sites for mobile users

Load Testing for Special Events and Holidays

Shunra and the Cloud – It’s here!!

NEW! Application Performance Testing in a Virtual Environment

LoadRunner and the Cloud – It’s here!!

Shunra on the Road – Interop 2010, Day 1

The Value of Leveraging Virtualization for Application Performance Testing

Join Shunra’s NEW User Group

Testing 3G Hand Held Inventory Devices using Shunra Virtual Enterprise (VE) Suite

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