Application Performance Engineering Blog – Shunra Software

LoadRunner and the Cloud – It’s here!!

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 [...]

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Shunra on the Road – Interop 2010, Day 1

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 [...]

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Hosted Load Testing II

My friend Mark Tomlinson from HP recently wrote an informative blog about “Understanding the language of hosted load testing.”  The blog touched on two competing approaches to application performance testing that were referenced as “behind the firewall” and “outside the firewall”.  Behind the firewall testing usually means testing in a lab environment such as a [...]

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Migrating to Business Ethernet Service

Impact on Enterprise Application Performance In the current economic environment where growth is tough to come by, Business Ethernet Service (aka Carrier Ethernet, Metro Ethernet) is bucking the trend. A recent analyst report confirms the uptick in growth of these services for Business Applications: Source: Vertical Systems Group, March 2009 Service providers are reaching critical [...]

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