A couple of weeks ago, I posted a blog dealing with a global study of Internet speed, where it was reported that the US is one of the few countries where the Internet is actually slowing down. On February 17, the Chairman of the FCC (Federal Communication Commission), Julius Genachowski, proposed a decade long program [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, February 9, 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 [...]
Continue reading...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 [...]
Continue reading...Friday, January 22, 2010
With the exponential growth of the Internet since the mid 90s, IP address space depletion has increasingly become a pressing concern. The reason that this issue has become more of a concern now than before is that the number of devices that can access the Internet has significantly expanded as compared to 10 years ago; [...]
Continue reading...Monday, December 21, 2009
One student at a time… Recently, I visited a company that develops and distributes software for Independent School District’s across USA. Their main product, originally developed for challenged kids, centers around dynamic computerized teaching and testing programs. This product proved to be so successful among this population that the company adapted it for other kids [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, December 1, 2009
I/ITSEC Conference Orlando 2009 November 30 – December 4 Orange County Convention Center Orlando, Florida Stop by the Shunra Booth #2715 Understanding our network is even more critical then ever before, yet we often guess on how applications will perform when rolled out across the network. Military IT organizations use Shunra’s virtual network solutions to [...]
Continue reading...Friday, November 6, 2009
As a corollary to last week’s blog about hosted load testing, I thought it would be interesting to explain a little about using a cloud-based test environment to perform pre-deployment testing for a cloud-based application. That sounds like a lot of clouds! What we are simply trying to understand is where and how to deploy [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, November 5, 2009
A data driven transactional application supports the execution of business processes. Each business process (such as book sale, update employee status, submit work hours, etc.) is comprised of multiple business transactions. A business transaction is described as the interaction and managed outcome of a well-defined step within a business process. A transaction is usually triggered [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Chat with your peers and share everyday challenges, experiences and tips & tricks on the HP Software solutions for application performance testing and management. Food, drink and great conversation provided! Chapter Meeting & Shunra Presentation at HP Alpharetta building from 6.30pm-8pm. Click here for directions Agenda: 6:00 pm – 6:45 pm Networking 6:00 pm – [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, October 13, 2009
This series of posts is about the day after a data center move. Now that the data center is remote, how does this paradigm shift impact the way we should develop, test, deploy, monitor and troubleshoot applications. I will try to cover as many topics as possible, but the main focus is still going to be around the role application performance management plays in this new paradigm.
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Friday, February 19, 2010
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