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Crowd-sourcing Vs. Automation for Data Center Relocation (DCR) testing
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 [...]
Continue reading...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 [...]
Continue reading...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."
Continue reading...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!
Continue reading...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.”
Continue reading...Business Needs vs. Network Performance: Critical Challenges Facing Network Managers
25. May 2010
Networking is getting tougher. Networks must deliver a growing range of services, from ERP, CRM and email to VoIP and web services applications, each of which has its own idiosyncrasies and requirements. Each new service introduced onto the network contends for available resources with every other service, impacting the network’s ability to support the business. [...]
Continue reading...How Shunra can help Utilities to deploy Smart Grid
3. May 2010
During the last couple of weeks I had the opportunity to meet with a couple of companies looking to develop applications for Smart Grid management. The newest trend in power distribution is to build systems to allow for ongoing monitoring of both consumption and generation of power by individual home users. This system would facilitate [...]
Continue reading...Using Shunra VE Technology in a VDI Implementation
23. March 2010
The latest buzzword in IT is “Virtualization”. Of course, the acronym can be apply to many cases, but the most commonly used case refers to the PC replacement with new generation of “terminals” that are commonly referred to as “DV”, Desktop Virtual Infrastructure. No, we are not talking about the reincarnation of V-100 green screen [...]
Continue reading...The FCC Invites You to Check How Slow Your Internet Access Is
12. March 2010
The FCC just released a set of tools designed to test a user connection to the Internet,both for PC platforms (works on IE and Firefox) and applets for Iphone and other smart phones. Just access www.broadband.gov and you will be prompted to review the national plan to deploy broadband and invited to test your own [...]
Continue reading...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 [...]
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- NEW! Application Performance Testing in a Virtual Environment
- LoadRunner and the Cloud – It’s here!!
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