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 [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, December 17, 2009
Video: Mark Tomlinson and Steve Feloney from HP address the risk of load testing Web 2.0 applications without considering WAN latency
Continue reading...Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Traveling to this week’s HP Software Universe in Hamburg with Mark Tomlinson was a real treat. Not only do Mark and I share many non-professional interests, but our lives as product managers give us plenty to chat about. On our train ride from Berlin to Hamburg, Mark’s insatiable blogging appetite bared itself while we were [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, December 16, 2009
In celebration of HP Software Universe in Hamburg, Germany Shunra is offering a free trial of WAN emulation within HP LoadRunner, VE Desktop for HP Software. You can use VE Desktop for HP Software to measure your application performance through a variety of emulated WAN conditions, including replication of production, mobile or theoretical networks. Click [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Chat with your peers and share everyday challenges, experiences and tips & tricks on the HP Software solutions for application performance testing and management. 10:45 AM to 2:00 PM – The Governors Club – Chapel Hill, NC VENUE & FACILITIES: The Governors Club – Chapel Hill, NC DIRECTIONS: To The Governors Club – Chapel Hill, NC Food, drink [...]
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 your [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, November 5, 2009
In the previous post we identified the Wide Area Network and the impairments that it introduces as a key reason for why a local user (let’s say in NYC) experiences a faster application than a user that is remote to his datacenter (let’s say in Tokyo). I also presented a question to the [...]
Continue reading...Friday, October 30, 2009
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 [...]
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 – Pizza [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, September 17, 2009
In the previous post http://www.shunra.com/shunrablog/index.php/2009/08/14/data-center-relocation-questions-and-answers-part-1/ I presented an example of a common performance problem with applications that host executables on a remote shared drive. As common as that problem is, it is usually a legacy problem, most new applications follow a more best practices architecture usually involving a web based front end for the application. [...]
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