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The Value of Leveraging Virtualization for Application Performance Testing

Friday, March 12, 2010

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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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Netflix Survey Hints at Iphone Streaming App

Friday, March 5, 2010

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Despite Netflix’s CEO comments in a recent interview to Reuters, it is apparent that the online/rental primer distributor of movies in the US is planning to release a new service targeting,  yes, you guessed correctly…  millions of Iphone users. Netflix is distributing among thousands of its subscribers an online survey (see below) to float the [...]

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Wi-Fi turns School’s Buses into Study Halls

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

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A pilot is now under way at one of Arizona’s school districts, where a couple of school buses are being equipped with an innovative Wi-Fi technology, allowing students to log into the Internet and start their homework while on route. For years, students at this district, outside Tucson, not unlike millions of students in the [...]

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FCC to Propose Faster Broadband Speeds

Friday, February 19, 2010

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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 [...]

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Is Apple’s IPAD a Game Changer?

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

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Since Steve Jobs presented Apple’s new addition, the IPAD, the press and the blogosphere are trying to assess the real impact on the new gadget. Is it a passing fad, like the Newton or the attempts by IBM to implement a tablet computer or a real game changer that finally, after almost 30 of personal [...]

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

Monday, February 8, 2010

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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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The Feds May Soon Mandate Cloud Computing Usage

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

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In a blog dedicated to Cloud Computing, published by InfoWorld, David Lithicum, the Cloud Computing guru, inform us that according to various published reports, the OMB (Office of Management and Budget) will mandate in the fiscal year 2011 (which starts in October 2010) that federal agencies not using cloud computing or making cloud computing part [...]

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WAN symptoms within Cloud type Data Centers – Why would we test something like this?

Monday, January 25, 2010

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WAN symptoms in question are latency, packet loss, disconnects, bit errors, etc. usually exist on Wide Area Networks and as a result cause applications performance degradation. But our WAN’s essentially are LAN’s connected with each other and those connections impose geographical distance between those LANs, thus creating “WAN behavior”. Inside individual LANs those issues happen [...]

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“From the Boulevard of Broken Dreams…”

Friday, January 22, 2010

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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 [...]

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Is the Internet in the United States slowing down?

Thursday, January 21, 2010

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A post found today in Mashable, a blog focusing on social technology, reports that the Internet in the US is showing signs of slowing down, as measured by Aramaic, the global content provider. The performance in Q3 was bad enough to displace the US from the 10 top countries with fastest Internet access  in the [...]

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